ǪrvOdd Lv 5VIII (Ǫrv 13)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 13 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 826.
Hvat ‘What’
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hvat (pron.): what
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
þér ‘the’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
Hjálmarr ‘Hjálmarr’
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Hjalmarr (noun m.): Hjálmarr
Hefr ‘have’
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hafa (verb): have
þú ‘You’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
lit ‘colour’
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1. litr (noun m.; °-ar dat. -/-i; -ir, acc. litu/hlyti(Eluc675(1989) 91¹)): colour, appearance
brugðit ‘changed’
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bregða (verb; °bregðr/brigðr; brá, brugðu; brugðinn/brogðinn): pull, jerk, break; change
[2] brugðit: so all others, ‘brugit’ 2845
Þik ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
kveð ‘say’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
[3] kveð ek: sé ek 173ˣ
mæða ‘are exhausting’
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2. mœða (verb): weary
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[4] margar undir ‘many wounds’: The remaining mss have miklar undir ‘great wounds’, which is a perfectly acceptable reading.
undir ‘wounds’
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1. und (noun f.; °; -ir): wound
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[4] margar undir ‘many wounds’: The remaining mss have miklar undir ‘great wounds’, which is a perfectly acceptable reading.
Hjálmr ‘helmet’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
þinn ‘Your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
höggvinn ‘shattered’
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hǫggva (verb): to strike, put to death, cut, hew
en ‘and your’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
[6] en á hlið: so R715ˣ, 343a, 471, 173ˣ, ok in síða 2845
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[6] en brynja á hlið ‘and your mail-coat has a rent’: This, the reading of R715ˣ and the Ǫrv mss, must be correct, as it bears alliteration, whereas 2845’s ok in síða brynja ‘and the long mail-coat’ does not, though it makes sense. Skj B interprets the line as ‘and your mail-coat on your side’, understanding á as ‘on’ and hlið f. ‘side’, rather than hlið n. ‘gate, rent, space’. As Kock (NN §2838) points out, the reading presented here is consistent with Hjálmarr’s complaint in the following stanza (Ǫrv 14/2) that his mail-coat is broken.
á ‘has’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
[6] en á hlið: so R715ˣ, 343a, 471, 173ˣ, ok in síða 2845
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[6] en brynja á hlið ‘and your mail-coat has a rent’: This, the reading of R715ˣ and the Ǫrv mss, must be correct, as it bears alliteration, whereas 2845’s ok in síða brynja ‘and the long mail-coat’ does not, though it makes sense. Skj B interprets the line as ‘and your mail-coat on your side’, understanding á as ‘on’ and hlið f. ‘side’, rather than hlið n. ‘gate, rent, space’. As Kock (NN §2838) points out, the reading presented here is consistent with Hjálmarr’s complaint in the following stanza (Ǫrv 14/2) that his mail-coat is broken.
hlið ‘a rent’
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2. hlið (noun n.; °-s; -): gate
[6] en á hlið: so R715ˣ, 343a, 471, 173ˣ, ok in síða 2845
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[6] en brynja á hlið ‘and your mail-coat has a rent’: This, the reading of R715ˣ and the Ǫrv mss, must be correct, as it bears alliteration, whereas 2845’s ok in síða brynja ‘and the long mail-coat’ does not, though it makes sense. Skj B interprets the line as ‘and your mail-coat on your side’, understanding á as ‘on’ and hlið f. ‘side’, rather than hlið n. ‘gate, rent, space’. As Kock (NN §2838) points out, the reading presented here is consistent with Hjálmarr’s complaint in the following stanza (Ǫrv 14/2) that his mail-coat is broken.
brynja ‘mail-coat’
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1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat
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[6] en brynja á hlið ‘and your mail-coat has a rent’: This, the reading of R715ˣ and the Ǫrv mss, must be correct, as it bears alliteration, whereas 2845’s ok in síða brynja ‘and the long mail-coat’ does not, though it makes sense. Skj B interprets the line as ‘and your mail-coat on your side’, understanding á as ‘on’ and hlið f. ‘side’, rather than hlið n. ‘gate, rent, space’. As Kock (NN §2838) points out, the reading presented here is consistent with Hjálmarr’s complaint in the following stanza (Ǫrv 14/2) that his mail-coat is broken.
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
kveð ‘say’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
[7] kveð ek: held ek 173ˣ
fjörvi ‘life’
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fjǫr (noun n.): life
um ‘to an end’
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2. um (particle): (particle)
[8] um: so 343a, 173ˣ, ok 2845, á R715ˣ, om. 173ˣ
farit ‘has come’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
[8] farit: ‘fari’ R715ˣ
þínu ‘that your’
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þinn (pron.; °f. þín, n. þitt): your
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In both Ǫrv and Heiðr, Oddr speaks this stanza at the end of the fight against the berserks, when Hjálmarr has killed Angantýr but has himself sustained mortal wounds.
It can be seen here that R715ˣ must derive from a version of the stanza that is much closer to that of the Ǫrv mss than to the exemplar of 2845. Ms. 344a has only the first two lines of this stanza. — [7-8]: For the idiom fara um (or of) fjǫrvi ‘die, come to the end of one’s life’, cf. Lok 57/6.
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