ǪgmEyb Lv 2VIII (Ǫrv 32)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 32 (Ǫgmundr Eyþjófsbani, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 845.
text and translation
Nú mun ek kasta kápu minni,
þeiri er gör var af grön jöfra
en hlaðbúin á hliðar báðar;
mun ek hennar móðr missa verða.
Ek mun nú kasta kápu minni, þeiri er var gör af grön jöfra, en hlaðbúin á báðar hliðar; móðr mun ek verða missa hennar.
‘Now I will cast off my cloak, the one that was made from the moustaches of princes, and edged with lace on both sides; exhausted, I will have to let go of it. ’
notes and context
Oddr and his companion Sírnir, having disposed of Geirrøðr and his daughter, turn their attention to Ǫgmundr and pursue him on foot. When they are almost upon him, Ǫgmundr throws off the cloak he is wearing so that he can run faster, and speaks this stanza and the next.
In an earlier passage of the prose text, it has been explained that Ǫgmundr extended his power over all the kings east of the Baltic and demanded tribute from them every twelve months in the form of kampinn øfra ok neðra af sjálfum sér ‘the upper and lower whiskers from themselves’, that is, their beards and moustaches (Ǫrv 1888, 134). He had this human hair made into a cloak, which he was wearing when Oddr and his men spotted him out fishing. On the symbolism of the cuttting off of human hair, especially that which is a sign of virility, as a gesture of subordination signifying castration, see Leach (1958, 157-62). — [1]: The reading of 471 is preferable to that of the other mss, which are hypermetrical, resulting in a málaháttr line of Type aA. — [7]: Again, 471 provides a metrical line.
readings
- [1] kasta: so 471, kasta verða 343a, 173ˣ
- [5] en: ok 471
- [7] mun ek hennar móðr: so 471, mun ek hennar mjök móðr 343a, mun ek móðr mjök 173ˣ
- [8] verða: hennar 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) — 74v/7 - 74v/9
imagesNú mun ek kasta verða
kápu minni,
þeiri er gör var
af grön jöfra
en hlaðbúin
á hliðar báðar;
mun ek hennar mjök móðr
missa verða.Nu mun ek | kasta uerda kapu minni · þeiri er gior uar af graun jofra · enn hladbuin a hlidar badar · mun ek | hennar miog mo᷎dr missa uerda ·
(HA)
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AM 471 4° (471) — 85r - 85r
Nú mun ek kasta
images
kápu minni,
þeiri er gör var
af grön jöfra
ok hlaðbúin
á hliðar báðar;
mun ek hennar móðr
missa verða. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 49r - 49v/7
Nú mun ek kasta verða
images
kápu minni,
þeiri er gör var
af grön jöfra
en hlaðbúin
á hliðar báðar;
mun ek móðr mjök
missa hennar. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 24r/8 - 24r/9
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