ǪrvOdd Ævdr 61VIII (Ǫrv 131)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 131 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 61)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 937.
text and translation
Þann drap Ögmundr Eyþjófsbani
í Hellulands hraunsóbygðum.
Félaga hans níu fjörvi næmðak;
hefik ei víking verra fundit.
Ögmundr Eyþjófsbani drap þann í hraunsóbygðum Hellulands. Næmðak níu félaga hans fjörvi; hefik ei fundit verra víking.
‘Ǫgmundr Eyþjófsbani (‘Eyþjófr’s killer’) slew him in the uninhabited rocky wilderness of Helluland. I took the lives of his nine companions; I have not found a worse murderer. ’
notes and context
There are a number of references to Oddr’s encounters with his greatest enemy, Ǫgmundr Eyþjófr’s killer, in the stanzas associated with the various versions of Ǫrv. They include Ǫgmundr Lv 1-3 (Ǫrv 31-3), three stanzas only in the younger mss; ǪrvOdd Lv 16-17 (Ǫrv 49-50), within Oddr’s mannjafnaðr; and ǪrvOdd Ævdr 44 (Ǫrv 114). While the younger mss expand and deepen Ǫgmundr’s role as a villain with demonic overtones in the saga (Arnold 2010), the extant stanzas, not all of which are in the younger mss alone, demonstrate that the Ǫgmundr narrative was potentially available for further development in the older mss.
readings
- [5] Félaga hans níu: en ek félaga hans 471, félagi hans 173ˣ
- [6] fjörvi: með fjörvi 173ˣ
- [6] næmðak: næmða 471, 173ˣ
- [7] ei: eigi 471
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/43 - 81r/44
imagesÞann drap Augmundr eyþiofs bani · j hellu lanz hrauns obygdum · felaga hans .ix. fior | ui næmdag · hefic ei uiking uerra fundit ·
(HA)
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AM 471 4° (471) — 95v - 95v
Þann drap Ögmundr
images
Eyþjófsbani
í Hellulands
hraunsóbygðum.
en ek félaga hans
fjörvi næmða;
hefik eigi víking
verra fundit. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 64va/11 - 64va/18
Þann drap Ögmundr
images
Eyþjófsbani
í Hellulands
hraunsóbygðum.
félagi hans
með fjörvi næmða;
hefik ei víking
verra fundit. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 34v/7 - 34v/8
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