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.
Oddr ‘Oddr’
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Oddr (noun m.)
vartu ‘you were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
at ‘at’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
egg ‘the blade’
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1. egg (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-): edge, blade < eggroð (noun n.): [blade-reddening]
kennings
eggroði,‘the blade-reddening, ’
= BATTLE
the blade-reddening, → BATTLE
roði ‘reddening’
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2. roð (noun n.) < eggroð (noun n.): [blade-reddening]
kennings
eggroði,‘the blade-reddening, ’
= BATTLE
the blade-reddening, → BATTLE
þá ‘when’
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2. þá (adv.): then
er ‘we’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
seggi ‘to die’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
all ‘the mighty’
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all- ((prefix)): very < allvaldr (noun m.): mighty ruler
[3] all‑: al‑ 343a
valds ‘ruler’s’
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valdr (noun m.): ruler < allvaldr (noun m.): mighty ruler
svelta ‘men’
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1. svelta (verb): die, hunger (strong, intrans.)
létum ‘caused’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
Bar ‘carried’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
sár ‘wounds’
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2. sár (noun n.; °-s; -): wound
þaðan ‘from there’
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þaðan (adv.): from there
sex ‘six’
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sex (num. cardinal): six
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
átta ‘eight’
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átta (num. cardinal): eight
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
með ‘among’
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með (prep.): with
bygðum ‘the settlements’
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byggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): dwelling, settlement
[7] bygðum: bæjum 344a, 343a, 471
batt ‘were begging’
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biðja (verb; °biðr; bað, báðu; beðinn (beiþ- Martin¹ 573, bỏþ- HákEirsp 661, cf. ed. intr. xl)): ask for, order, pray
þér ‘for yourself’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
matar ‘for food’
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matr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir): food
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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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