ǪrvOdd Lv 6VIII (Ǫrv 36)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 36 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 849.
Þit ‘you two’
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it (pron.; °gen. ykkar, dat./acc. ykkr): you (two)
skuluð ‘must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
hlýða ‘listen’
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2. hlýða (verb): hear, listen; be able
hróðri ‘praise poetry’
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hróðr (noun m.): encomium, praise
notes
[2] hróðri mínum ‘my praise poetry’: Oddr means that his rivals should now listen to him praising his own exploits instead of exaggerating their own.
mínum ‘to my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
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[2] hróðri mínum ‘my praise poetry’: Oddr means that his rivals should now listen to him praising his own exploits instead of exaggerating their own.
Sigurðr ‘Sigurðr’
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Sigurðr (noun m.): Sigurðr
[3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr (‘s. ok s.’): ‘sig’ ok s.’ 344a, ‘sig’ ok snö’ 343a, ‘sig’. ok si’ 471
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
[3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr (‘s. ok s.’): ‘sig’ ok s.’ 344a, ‘sig’ ok snö’ 343a, ‘sig’. ok si’ 471
Sjólfr ‘Sjólfr’
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Sjolfr (noun m.)
[3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr (‘s. ok s.’): ‘sig’ ok s.’ 344a, ‘sig’ ok snö’ 343a, ‘sig’. ok si’ 471
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[3]: Where they spell out the name Sjólfr (rather than abbreviating it) all mss give some form of the rising diphthong [jo], but all previous eds, except for Edd. Min., restore a two-syllable Sæólfr (OWN *saiwi-wulfaʀ ‘sea-wolf’) in all places where this pers. n. occurs. The situation appears more complex, however, with the Sjólfr form metrically necessary in the present line and in Ǫrv 37/1 and 53/3, the disyllabic form clear in one instance (Ǫrv 40/2), and both forms possible in the remainder (Ǫrv 43/1, 45/1 and 58/8).
sessu ‘bench’
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sessa (noun f.; °-u; -ur): [bench] < sessunautr (noun m.)
nautar ‘companions’
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nautr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): companion; treasure < sessunautr (noun m.)
Ykr ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
á ‘have’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
[5] á ek: er at 471
gjalda ‘to pay back’
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1. gjalda (verb): pay, repay
greypan ‘coarse’
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greypr (adj.; °compar. -ari): cruel
hróðr ‘impudent’
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hróðr (noun m.): encomium, praise
notes
[7] harðsnúinn hróðr ‘impudent poetry’: Normally hróðr means ‘praise, praise poetry’, as it does in l. 2 above, but here it seems to have a more general sense, as what Sjólfr and Sigurðr have recited about Oddr is hardly praise. Harðsnúinn ‘impudent’ means lit. ‘hard-twisted’.
harðsnúinn ‘poetry’
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harðsnúinn (adj./verb p.p.)
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[7] harðsnúinn hróðr ‘impudent poetry’: Normally hróðr means ‘praise, praise poetry’, as it does in l. 2 above, but here it seems to have a more general sense, as what Sjólfr and Sigurðr have recited about Oddr is hardly praise. Harðsnúinn ‘impudent’ means lit. ‘hard-twisted’.
hug ‘thought’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage < huglauss (adj.)
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[8] huglausum ‘thoughtless’: This adj. also bears the connotation ‘faint-hearted, cowardly’ (cf. LP: huglauss).
lausum ‘less fellows’
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lauss (adj.; °compar. lausari): loose, free, without < huglauss (adj.)
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[8] huglausum ‘thoughtless’: This adj. also bears the connotation ‘faint-hearted, cowardly’ (cf. LP: huglauss).
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Oddr now drinks off his horn and fills one for each of Sjólfr and Sigurðr. He speaks the following two stanzas.
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