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.
Sat ‘remained’
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sitja (verb): sit
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
sælu ‘good fortune’
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1. sæla (noun f.; °-u; -ur): bliss
síðan ‘afterwards’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
minni ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
vilgi ‘for a very’
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vilgi (adv.): not at all, by no means
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
vita ‘to know’
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1. vita (verb): know
þóttumz ‘seemed’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
[4] þóttumz: so 471, 173ˣ, ‘þottunnzt’ 343a
er ‘There’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
at ‘is’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
segja ‘to tell’
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segja (verb): say, tell
frá ‘about’
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frá (prep.): from
förum ‘journeys’
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fǫr (noun f.): journey, fate; movement
mínum ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
snotrum ‘wise’
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snotr (adj.): wise
mun ‘will be’
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munu (verb): will, must
in ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
efsta ‘last’
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efri (adj. comp.; °superl. efstr/øfstr (eft- [$1653$] 13r²³, etc.)): higher, highest
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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.
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