ǪrvOdd Ævdr 57VIII (Ǫrv 127)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 127 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 57)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 934.
Veit ‘know’
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1. vita (verb): know
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
fossum ‘in torrents’
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fors (noun m.): torrent
falla ‘to fall’
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falla (verb): fall
lét ‘caused’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
Jórdán ‘the Jordan’
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Jórdán (noun f.): River Jordan
notes
[2] Jórdán ‘the Jordan’: The act of bathing in the River Jordan, ascribed here to the legendary Oddr, followed a well-established practice attributed to a number of Scandinavian rulers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, including Rǫgnvaldr Kali Kolsson, jarl of Orkney. For a list, see Rv Lv 27II, Note to [All].
um ‘about’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
fyr ‘beyond’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
útan ‘’
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útan (prep.): outside, without
Grikki ‘the Greeks’
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grikkr (noun m.): Greek
Helt ‘retained’
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halda (verb): hold, keep
[5] Helt þó sínum: so 471, helt en þó 343a, helt þó 173ˣ
sínum ‘its’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
[5] Helt þó sínum: so 471, helt en þó 343a, helt þó 173ˣ
notes
[5] sínum ‘its’: This reflexive possessive adj. is only in ms. 471, but it provides a metrical line, lacking in the other two mss, as well as good sense with the phrase öllum kostum ‘all special qualities’ (l. 8). It is also in the prose texts, ok helt hon ǫllum kostum sínum sem áðr ‘and it [the shirt] kept all its special qualities as before’ (ms. 344a, Ǫrv 1888, 118), ok helt hon ǫllum kostum sínum ‘and it kept all its special qualities’ (ms. 7, Ǫrv 1888, 119).
sem ‘as’
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sem (conj.): as, which
hverr ‘everyone’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
ítrgör ‘the splendidly made’
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ítrgǫrr (adj.)
skyrta ‘shirt’
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skyrta (noun f.; °-u; -ur): shirt
öllum ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
kostum ‘special qualities’
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1. kostr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -i/-u): choice, food, goods, good quality
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For the saga context, see Ǫrv 126, Note to [All]. All mss make a point of mentioning how the special protective powers of Oddr’s magical shirt, which was made for him by Ǫlvǫr in Ireland (see Ǫlvǫr Lv 1 (Ǫrv 4) and ǪrvOdd Ævdr 41 (Ǫrv 111)), were not damaged by his bathe in the Jordan (Ǫrv 1888, 118-19). The thinking behind this observation might be that, as the Jordan was the paradigmatic baptismal locus for Christians, being the place where John the Baptist baptised Christ, its waters that had bathed Oddr’s body might have been able to counteract the presumably non-Christian magic of his shirt.
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