ǪrvOdd Ævdr 58VIII (Ǫrv 128)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 128 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 58)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 935.
Mætta ‘met with’
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mœta (verb): meet
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
gammi ‘a vulture’
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gammr (noun m.): vulture
gljúfrum ‘some gullies’
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gljúfr (noun n.): gully
næri ‘near’
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næri (adv.): near
flaug ‘flew’
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fljúga (verb): fly
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
fjarri ‘far’
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fjarri (adv.): far, far from it, unlikely
löndum ‘from lands’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
[4] löndum: so 471, 173ˣ, ‘laudum’ 343a
háva ‘high’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
[5] þar til er háva: þar til háva all
hamra ‘cliffs’
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1. hamarr (noun m.; °-s, dat. hamri; hamrar): hammer, cliff
fundum ‘we came upon’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
hreiðri ‘his’
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hreiðr (noun n.; °hreiðrs; gen. hreiðra): °fuglerede; (om bolig, tilholdssted)
sínu ‘nest’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
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This and the following two stanzas of the Ævdr (Ǫrv 128-30) recount some of Oddr’s adventures that are only in the younger mss of Ǫrv. These are printed by Boer in the notes section of Ǫrv 1888, 118-25 in a smaller font than the main text, which is based on mss 344a and 7, neither of which has the episode. Ǫrv 30 also occurs in this section of the text of 343a and 471; see Introduction to this stanza for the prose context. Briefly, a giant vulture snatches Oddr up in its talons, as he sits on a cliff-top, pondering how to cross a huge ravine, and transports him a great distance to its eyrie to feed its young. — [7-8]: These lines are probably to be understood as ironic, seeing that Oddr has no choice but to be transported to the eagle’s nest as food for its young.
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