Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 35 (Sigurðr, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 849.
Oddr, vartu eigi at eggroði,
þá er seggi allvalds svelta létum.
Bar ek sár þaðan sex ok átta,
en þú með bygðum batt þér matar.
Oddr, vartu eigi at {eggroði}, þá er létum seggi allvalds svelta. Ek bar sex ok átta sár þaðan, en þú batt þér matar með bygðum.
‘Oddr, you were not at the blade-reddening [BATTLE], when we caused the mighty ruler’s men to die. I carried from there six and eight [fourteen] wounds, but you were begging for food for yourself among the settlements. ’
Sigurðr now approaches Oddr with a second horn full of ale and recites this stanza.
Sigurðr uses another standard topos of the mannjafnaðr, of the form ‘I was at the fight, but you were not there [implication: you were too cowardly to fight]; instead you were engaged in a demeaning act in pursuit of creature comforts [implication: you are soft and unmanly]’.
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.
Oddr uartu eigi at eggroði · þa er seggi alluallz suellta letum · bar ek sar þaðan vi ok viij · | enn þu með bygðum batt þer matar ·
(HA)
Oddr, vartu eigi
at eggroði,
þá er seggi allvalds
svelta létum.
Bar ek sár þaðan
sex ok átta,
en þú með bæjum
batt þér matar.
Oddr, vartu eigi
at eggroði,
þá er seggi al-valds
svelta létum.
Bar ek sár þaðan
sex ok átta,
ok þú með bæjum
batt þér matar.
Oddr, vartu eigi
at eggroði,
þá er seggi allvalds
svelta létum.
Bar ek sár þaðan
sex ok átta,
en þú með bæjum
batt þér matar.
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