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Sigurðr Lv 1VIII (Ǫrv 35)

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.

SigurðrLausavísur
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text and translation

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.

notes and context

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]’.

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga VII 2: AII, 297, BII, 317, Skald II, 169; Ǫrv 1888, 159, Ǫrv 1892, 78, FSGJ 2, 311-12; Edd. Min. 65.

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