ǪrvOdd Ævdr 54VIII (Ǫrv 124)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 124 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 54)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 931.
var ‘happened’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
fyrri ‘previously’
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2. fyrri (adv.): before, previously
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
senda ‘’
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senda (verb): send
orð ‘word’
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orð (noun n.; °-s; -): word
[3-4] ok öllum þeim | orð hin mestu | niðjum mínum | á norðrvega 471, öllum orð | niðjum mínum 173ˣ
inum ‘to’
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2. inn (art.): the
[3-4] ok öllum þeim | orð hin mestu | niðjum mínum | á norðrvega 471, öllum orð | niðjum mínum 173ˣ
nyrztum ‘most northerly’
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nyrðri (adj. comp.; °superl. nyrztr): farther north
[3-4] ok öllum þeim | orð hin mestu | niðjum mínum | á norðrvega 471, öllum orð | niðjum mínum 173ˣ
niðjum ‘kinsmen’
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1. niðr (noun m.; °-s; niðjar/niðir, acc. niði): son, kinsman, relative
[3-4] ok öllum þeim | orð hin mestu | niðjum mínum | á norðrvega 471, öllum orð | niðjum mínum 173ˣ
mínum ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
[3-4] ok öllum þeim | orð hin mestu | niðjum mínum | á norðrvega 471, öllum orð | niðjum mínum 173ˣ
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
svá ‘as’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
feginn ‘joyful’
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2. feginn (adj.; °compar. fegnari, superl. fegnastr): glad, happy
fundi ‘at meeting’
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fundr (noun m.): discovery, meeting
sem ‘as’
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sem (conj.): as, which
notes
[7-8] sem hungraðr haukr ‘as a famished hawk’: All eds except FSGJ emend the sg. adj. and noun of the mss to the pl. hungraðir haukar ‘famished hawks’ to give metrical lines, but the same effect can be achieved by normalising both words to a C14th standard so that both show desyllabification of ‑r to ‑ur. Haukur is already desyllabified in 343a. The problem with emending to the pl. noun and adj. is that the comparison between Oddr’s joy at seeing his relatives and a hawk finding fresh meat seems to require a sg. comparator in both cases. As these lines are only in the younger mss, there is no chronological impediment to presuming late composition; the use of a simile is unusual and possibly indicative of late composition also or of direct borrowing from another poem (see Note to ll. 5-8 above).
hungraðr ‘a famished’
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hungra (verb): be hungry
notes
[7-8] sem hungraðr haukr ‘as a famished hawk’: All eds except FSGJ emend the sg. adj. and noun of the mss to the pl. hungraðir haukar ‘famished hawks’ to give metrical lines, but the same effect can be achieved by normalising both words to a C14th standard so that both show desyllabification of ‑r to ‑ur. Haukur is already desyllabified in 343a. The problem with emending to the pl. noun and adj. is that the comparison between Oddr’s joy at seeing his relatives and a hawk finding fresh meat seems to require a sg. comparator in both cases. As these lines are only in the younger mss, there is no chronological impediment to presuming late composition; the use of a simile is unusual and possibly indicative of late composition also or of direct borrowing from another poem (see Note to ll. 5-8 above).
haukr ‘hawk’
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1. haukr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): hawk
notes
[7-8] sem hungraðr haukr ‘as a famished hawk’: All eds except FSGJ emend the sg. adj. and noun of the mss to the pl. hungraðir haukar ‘famished hawks’ to give metrical lines, but the same effect can be achieved by normalising both words to a C14th standard so that both show desyllabification of ‑r to ‑ur. Haukur is already desyllabified in 343a. The problem with emending to the pl. noun and adj. is that the comparison between Oddr’s joy at seeing his relatives and a hawk finding fresh meat seems to require a sg. comparator in both cases. As these lines are only in the younger mss, there is no chronological impediment to presuming late composition; the use of a simile is unusual and possibly indicative of late composition also or of direct borrowing from another poem (see Note to ll. 5-8 above).
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There now follow ten stanzas that are only in the younger mss; 343a is used as main ms. for these. — There is considerable textual variation between the mss of this stanza, and that of 471 is expanded to ten rather than eight lines by creating four lines out of ll. 3-4. The stanza’s subject matter relates to the reunion between Oddr and his kinsmen Sigurðr and Guðmundr who had gone north to Hrafnista while he had been engaged in viking expeditions further south. According to the prose text, this reunion occurs before Oddr and his kinsmen sail to Southern Europe (Ǫrv 1888, 112-13), so before the events described in Ǫrv 52 and 53. The adv. fyrri ‘previously’ in l. 1 may indicate the composer’s awareness of this chronology. Ms. 471 reverses the order of Ǫrv 53 and 54, suggesting the copyist or a predecessor understood the correct sequence of events. — [3-4]: Ms. 471 creates four lines where the other two mss have two, reading (as prose order) ok orð hin mestu öllum þeim niðjum mínum á norðrvega ‘and [sent] the strongest [lit. greatest] words to all my kinsmen in the northern regions’. — [5-8]: These lines are remarkably similar to HHund II 43/1-4 (NK 159), which read: Nú em ec svá fegin | fundi ocrom | sem átfrekir | Óðins haukar ‘Now I am as glad at our meeting as the food-greedy hawks of Óðinn’. The adj. feginn ‘glad’ is also found in other poems of the Poetic Edda as well as in romance literature (cf. Kommentar IV, 783). It seems very likely that the composer of Ǫrv 124 adapted the helmingr from HHund II 43, which is addressed by the valkyrie Sigrún to her lover Helgi, to the subject of Oddr’s meeting with his kinsmen.
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