ǪrvOdd Ævdr 55VIII (Ǫrv 125)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 125 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 55)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 932.
text and translation
Brögnum þrimr buðu skatnar
margir síðan metorð þaðra,
en ek þeygi þat þiggja vilda;
urðu báðir þar bræðr eptir.
Margir skatnar buðu síðan þrimr brögnum metorð þaðra, en ek vilda þeygi þiggja þat; báðir bræðr urðu þar eptir.
‘Many men then offered noble status there to the three heroes, but I did not want to accept that; both brothers remained behind there. ’
notes and context
This stanza relates to a small section of the prose text (not in ms. 7) that follows on from an episode in which Oddr and his companions encounter Christians in Aquitaine and accept Christianity (Ǫrv 1888, 114). Oddr is restless and decides to move on, but Guðmundr and Sigurðr remain behind. — Although for consistency 343a is taken as main ms. for this stanza, 471 has the best text of ll. 5-8. — [5-8]: Ms. 471’s version of these lines is the only one that is metrically regular, assuming that the ek ‘I’ of l. 5 was probably not original. Boer prints 471’s text here, and so does this edn; Skj B and Skald delete mínir ‘my’ in l. 7 (in both 343a and 173ˣ) and produce a word order for ll. 7-8 that does not occur in any ms., namely urðu bræðr þar | báðir eptir ‘both brothers remained behind there’. FSGJ reproduces 343a’s text of ll. 7-8.
readings
- [2] skatnar: síðan 471, þaðra 173ˣ
- [3] síðan: þar 471
- [4] metorð: með orð 471
- [4] þaðra: skatnar 471, 173ˣ
- [5] en ek þeygi þat: so 471, en ek þeyi 343a, en ek þat þeygi 173ˣ
- [6] vilda: so 471, vildi 343a, 173ˣ
- [7] báðir: so 471, mínir 343a, mínir báðir 173ˣ
- [8] þar bræðr eptir: so 471, 173ˣ, bræðr báðir eptir þar 343a
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 343 a 4° (343a) — 81r/34 - 81r/35
imagesBrögnum þrimr
buðu skatnar
margir síðan
metorð þaðra,
en ek þeyi
þiggja vildi;
urðu mínir
bræðr báðir eptir þar .Braugnum .iij. budu skattnar · margir sidan metord þadra · enn ec þe | ygi þiggia uilldi · urdu minir brædr badir eptir þar ·
(HA)
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AM 471 4° (471) — 95v - 95v
Brögnum þrimr
images
buðu síðan
margir þar
með orð skatnar,
en ek þeygi þat
þiggja vilda;
urðu báðir
þar bræðr eptir. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 64ra/26 - 64rb/3
Brögnum þrimr
images
buðu þaðra
margir síðan
metorð skatnar,
en ek þat þeygi
þiggja vildi;
urðu mínir báðir
þar bræðr eptir. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 34r/25 - 34r/26
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