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.
Þann ‘him’
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[1] þann ‘him’: Lit. ‘that one’, i.e. Oddr’s son Vignir, mentioned but not named in the previous stanza. After guiding his father northwards to the Greenland Sea to find Ǫgmundr, Vignir, still only a boy of ten, but already with prodigious strength, is killed by Ǫgmundr who savagely bites through his windpipe (Ǫrv 1888, 133). This is the act of a troll (Ármann Jakobsson 2011, 42); cf. Egill Lv 35/7-8V (Eg 64), where the same act is attributed to Egill Skallagrímsson.
drap ‘slew’
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drepa (verb; °drepr; drap, drápu; drepinn): kill, strike
Ögmundr ‘Ǫgmundr’
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Ǫgmundr (noun m.): Ǫgmundr
Eyþjófsbani ‘Eyþjófsbani’
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Eyþjófsbani (noun m.)
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
Hellulands ‘of Helluland’
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helluland (noun n.)
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[3] Hellulands ‘of Helluland’: Helluland ‘Slabland’, named for the many flat rocks found there, is mentioned in Eir as part of the fabulous geography of Arctic North America, and has doubtless been taken over by the composers of the younger versions of Ǫrv from this or similar Vinland sources; on occurrences of the name Helluland, see ONP: hella.
hraunsóbygðum ‘the uninhabited rocky wilderness’
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hraunsóbyggð (noun f.)
Félaga ‘companions’
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félagi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): companion
[5] Félaga hans níu: en ek félaga hans 471, félagi hans 173ˣ
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[5] níu félaga hans ‘his nine companions’: That is, Ǫgmundr’s companions. In Ǫrv 50/6, it is mentioned that nine of Ǫgmundr’s men are left alive after his first encounter with Oddr.
hans ‘of his’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[5] Félaga hans níu: en ek félaga hans 471, félagi hans 173ˣ
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[5] níu félaga hans ‘his nine companions’: That is, Ǫgmundr’s companions. In Ǫrv 50/6, it is mentioned that nine of Ǫgmundr’s men are left alive after his first encounter with Oddr.
níu ‘nine’
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níu (num. cardinal): nine
[5] Félaga hans níu: en ek félaga hans 471, félagi hans 173ˣ
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[5] níu félaga hans ‘his nine companions’: That is, Ǫgmundr’s companions. In Ǫrv 50/6, it is mentioned that nine of Ǫgmundr’s men are left alive after his first encounter with Oddr.
hefik ‘I have’
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hafa (verb): have
víking ‘murderer’
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víkingr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): viking
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[7] víking ‘murderer’: The noun víkingr often has pejorative force in post-Viking Age Icelandic texts and may gloss a range of terms from ‘thief, robber’ to ‘murderer’ (cf. ONP: víkingr); the last of these is chosen here to characterise Ǫgmundr.
verra ‘a worse’
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verri (adj. comp.): worse, worst
fundit ‘found’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
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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.
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