ǪrvOdd Ævdr 70VIII (Ǫrv 140)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 140 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 70)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 946.
text and translation
Sat ek at sælu síðan minni
vilgi lengi, sem ek vita þóttumz.
Fjölð er at segja frá förum mínum
snotrum seggjum; sjá mun in efsta.
Ek sat síðan vilgi lengi at sælu minni, sem ek þóttumz vita. Fjölð er at segja snotrum seggjum frá förum mínum; sjá mun in efsta.
‘I remained afterwards in my good fortune for a very long time, as I seemed to know. There is a great deal to tell wise men about my journeys; this one will be the last. ’
notes and context
Ǫrv 140 ll. 5-8 and Ǫrv 141 are found in 7 shortly before the end of the saga, just after Oddr has ordered one group of his men to prepare him a tomb and the other to listen and remember the poem (kvæði) that he is about to compose as his end draws near. Ǫrv 140 is introduced in 7 with the words Þessa vísu kvað Oddr síðast ‘Oddr spoke this stanza last’. There is no break between what is presented here as l. 8 of Ǫrv 140 and l. 1 of Ǫrv 141, which suggests that in 7’s version they should be considered as comprising one long stanza of twelve lines. In the younger mss this stanza is the second-to-last of the continuous Ævdr.
readings
- [1] at: om. 173ˣ
- [3] lengi: lengr 173ˣ
- [4] sem: enn 173ˣ
- [4] þóttumz: so 471, 173ˣ, ‘þottunnzt’ 343a
- [5] Fjölð: so all others, fjölði 343a
- [7] seggjum: drengjum 173ˣ
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) — 81v/11 - 81v/12
imagesSat ek at sælu
síðan minni
vilgi lengi,
sem ek vita †þottunnzt†.
fjölði er at segja
frá förum mínum
snotrum seggjum;
sjá mun in efsta.Sat ec at sælv sidan minni uilgi leingi sem ec vita | þottunnzt fiolde er at seigia fra faurvm minum · snotrum seggium sia mun hin efzta ·
(HA)
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Holm perg 7 4° (7) — 57r/6 - 57r/7 [5-8]
imagesFio᷎lð er at segia fra fo᷎rum minum snotrum | seɢium sia mun en efsta ·
(HA)
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AM 471 4° (471) — 96r - 96r
Sat ek at sælu
images
síðan minni
vilgi lengi,
sem ek vita þóttumz.
Fjölð er at segja
frá förum mínum
snotrum seggjum;
sjá mun in efsta. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 65rb/3 - 65rb/10
Sat ek sælu
images
síðan minni
vilgi lengr,
enn ek vita þóttumz.
Fjölð er at segja
frá förum mínum
snotrum drengjum;
sjá mun in efsta. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 34v/23 - 34v/24
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