ǪrvOdd Ævdr 53VIII (Ǫrv 123)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 123 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 53)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 930.
kom ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
[1] Þar kom ek útarst: Enn kom ek þar 343a, 471, 173ˣ
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
[1] Þar kom ek útarst: Enn kom ek þar 343a, 471, 173ˣ
útarst ‘furthest out’
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útarr (adv.): further out
[1] Þar kom ek útarst: Enn kom ek þar 343a, 471, 173ˣ
Akvitána ‘of the Aquitainians’
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akvítán (noun m.)
[2] Akvitána (‘aqvitana’): Akvitánía 343a, 471, 173ˣ
notes
[2] Akvitána ‘of the Aquitainians’: Both here and in Ǫrv 37/6, 7 refers to the people of Aquitaine as Akvitánir, gen. pl. Akvitána, dat. pl. Akvitánum, while the other mss. give forms of the p. n. Akvitánia ‘Aquitaine’.
bragna ‘of the men’
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bragnar (noun m.): men, warriors
kindir ‘the kin’
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kind (noun f.; °-ar; -r): offspring, race
borgum ‘the towns’
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borg (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -; -ir): city, stronghold
réðu ‘ruled’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
Þar ‘There’
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þar (adv.): there
lét ‘caused’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
fjóra ‘four’
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fjórir (num. cardinal): four
liggja ‘to lie’
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liggja (verb): lie
hrausta ‘strong’
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hraustr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): strong, valiant
drengi ‘men’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
notes
[8] nú em ek kominn hér ‘now I have come here’: It is not clear from the prose context in 7 where ‘here’ is.
notes
[8] nú em ek kominn hér ‘now I have come here’: It is not clear from the prose context in 7 where ‘here’ is.
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[8] nú em ek kominn hér ‘now I have come here’: It is not clear from the prose context in 7 where ‘here’ is.
hér ‘here’
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hér (adv.): here
notes
[8] nú em ek kominn hér ‘now I have come here’: It is not clear from the prose context in 7 where ‘here’ is.
kominn ‘come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
notes
[8] nú em ek kominn hér ‘now I have come here’: It is not clear from the prose context in 7 where ‘here’ is.
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In 7 this stanza occurs before Ævdr 53, following the sequence of the prose narrative, while in 471 it occurs after Ævdr 54. According to the prose saga (Ǫrv 1888, 112-17) Oddr and his kinsmen Sigurðr and Guðmundr travel south from Hrafnista one spring to go raiding in Southern Europe. They find themselves in Aquitaine, where they encounter Christians. (In 7 Oddr’s encounter with Christianity comes in Sicily, where he is baptised by an abbot named Hugi. He then travels to Aquitaine.) Although the versions of the saga differ on this point, in all versions Oddr fights against a group of assailants who threaten the Christians. In 7 they are four chieftains, in the other mss four men who attack a religious procession and cut off a bishop’s head with long knives. This incident is also mentioned in Ǫrv 37/5-8.
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