Heiðr Lv 2VIII (Ǫrv 2)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 2 (Heiðr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 811.
Ferr ‘travel’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
svá ‘thus’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
fjörðu ‘firths’
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fjǫrðr (noun m.): fjord
breiða ‘broad’
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breiðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): broad, wide
líðr ‘sail’
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1. líða (verb): move, glide
yfir ‘across’
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yfir (prep.): over
langa ‘long’
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langr (adj.; °compar. lengri, superl. lengstr): long
[4] langa: láða 7, laga 343a, 173ˣ
vága ‘bays’
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vágr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): sea, wave
þótt ‘though’
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þótt (conj.): although
sær ‘the sea’
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sjór (noun m.): sea
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[5] um ‘around’: Most eds assume that earlier versions of the stanza read of in the sense ‘over’ and emend; cf. the reading yfir ‘over’ of the younger mss. However, no extant ms. reads of.
þik ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
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[6] sægjum ‘in billows’: The meaning of this noun is not certain. Sœgr, later sægr, occurs as a simplex meaning ‘sea’ in several kennings (LP: sœgr), but here a sense like ‘waves, billows’ seems to be required (see NN §119 for probable cognates in other Germanic languages). However, as LP: sœgr suggests, it may here be identical in meaning with ModIcel. sægur ‘swarm, crowd’ (of people), in which case the meaning would refer to the multitude of waves rather than their size.
gangi ‘may surge’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
[6] gangi: drífi 343a
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[7-8] þó skaltu brenna á Berurjóðri ‘yet you will burn at Berurjóðr’: Berurjóðr is the name of Oddr’s foster-father Ingjaldr’s farm in Jæren, south-west Norway, where the action of this episode takes place. In the prose text following sts 1-3 the prophetess tells Oddr that he will die at Berurjóðr and that the skull of the horse Faxi will cause his death. The reference to burning looks forward to the end of the saga when the dying Oddr orders his men to prepare a stone coffin for him and to burn him and all his belongings on a funeral pyre.
skaltu ‘you will’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
notes
[7-8] þó skaltu brenna á Berurjóðri ‘yet you will burn at Berurjóðr’: Berurjóðr is the name of Oddr’s foster-father Ingjaldr’s farm in Jæren, south-west Norway, where the action of this episode takes place. In the prose text following sts 1-3 the prophetess tells Oddr that he will die at Berurjóðr and that the skull of the horse Faxi will cause his death. The reference to burning looks forward to the end of the saga when the dying Oddr orders his men to prepare a stone coffin for him and to burn him and all his belongings on a funeral pyre.
brenna ‘burn’
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2. brenna (verb; °brennr/brenn; brann, brunnu; brunninn): (strong, intransitive)
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[7-8] þó skaltu brenna á Berurjóðri ‘yet you will burn at Berurjóðr’: Berurjóðr is the name of Oddr’s foster-father Ingjaldr’s farm in Jæren, south-west Norway, where the action of this episode takes place. In the prose text following sts 1-3 the prophetess tells Oddr that he will die at Berurjóðr and that the skull of the horse Faxi will cause his death. The reference to burning looks forward to the end of the saga when the dying Oddr orders his men to prepare a stone coffin for him and to burn him and all his belongings on a funeral pyre.
á ‘at’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[7-8] þó skaltu brenna á Berurjóðri ‘yet you will burn at Berurjóðr’: Berurjóðr is the name of Oddr’s foster-father Ingjaldr’s farm in Jæren, south-west Norway, where the action of this episode takes place. In the prose text following sts 1-3 the prophetess tells Oddr that he will die at Berurjóðr and that the skull of the horse Faxi will cause his death. The reference to burning looks forward to the end of the saga when the dying Oddr orders his men to prepare a stone coffin for him and to burn him and all his belongings on a funeral pyre.
Beru ‘Beru’
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1. bera (noun f.; °-u): she-bear, shield < Berurjóðr (noun n.)
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[7-8] þó skaltu brenna á Berurjóðri ‘yet you will burn at Berurjóðr’: Berurjóðr is the name of Oddr’s foster-father Ingjaldr’s farm in Jæren, south-west Norway, where the action of this episode takes place. In the prose text following sts 1-3 the prophetess tells Oddr that he will die at Berurjóðr and that the skull of the horse Faxi will cause his death. The reference to burning looks forward to the end of the saga when the dying Oddr orders his men to prepare a stone coffin for him and to burn him and all his belongings on a funeral pyre.
rjóðri ‘rjóðr’
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2. rjóðr (noun n.; °; dat. -um): °rydning, lysning < Berurjóðr (noun n.)
[8] ‑rjóðri: so all others, ‘‑rodri’ 344a
notes
[7-8] þó skaltu brenna á Berurjóðri ‘yet you will burn at Berurjóðr’: Berurjóðr is the name of Oddr’s foster-father Ingjaldr’s farm in Jæren, south-west Norway, where the action of this episode takes place. In the prose text following sts 1-3 the prophetess tells Oddr that he will die at Berurjóðr and that the skull of the horse Faxi will cause his death. The reference to burning looks forward to the end of the saga when the dying Oddr orders his men to prepare a stone coffin for him and to burn him and all his belongings on a funeral pyre.
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See Introduction above.
Lines 5-6 are absent from the version of 7. — A version of this stanza may be the inspiration for OStór 1 and ch. 5 of the prose text of OStór, in which there is a similar exchange between a scornful protagonist and a woman who prophesies that the hero will meet his fate on a Norwegian estate in Nordmøre. Cf. OStór 1, Notes to [All] and l. 2 for a discussion of possible verbal echoes.
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