Sjólfr Lv 2VIII (Ǫrv 38)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 38 (Sjólfr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 851.
text and translation
Þú hefir, Oddr, farit með ölmusum
ok bitlinga borit af borði,
en ek einn af Úlfsfjalli
höggvinn skjöld í hendi bark.
Oddr, þú hefir farit með ölmusum ok borit bitlinga af borði, en ek einn bark höggvinn skjöld í hendi af Úlfsfjalli.
‘Oddr, you have gone about with paupers and taken titbits from the table, but I alone carried a shattered shield in my hand from Úlfsfjall. ’
notes and context
After Oddr’s previous two stanzas, Sjólfr and Sigurðr drain their horns, and go over to Oddr again. Sjólfr presents him with another horn, and speaks Ǫrv 38.
[1-2]: Ms. 344a has a different text here, þú hefir, Oddr, þegit | ölmusu ‘Oddr, you have received alms’. This reading makes sense but is metrically deficient in l. 2. Boer (Ǫrv 1892, 107) understands the other mss’ reading þú hefir farit með ölmusum in the same sense as 344a’s, translating du … hast almosen angenommen ‘you … have received alms’, but Skj B and LP: ǫlmusa assume the same meaning as is given here. The noun ǫlmusa ‘alms, charity’ also has the sense ‘paupers, vagrants, imbeciles’ when used in the pl. The only other pl. usage of this word in Old Norse poetry comes in Anon Hsv 14/2VII, where it certainly refers to vagrants. — [5, 7]: These two lines are in kviðuháttr.
readings
- [1] farit: þegit 344a, om. 471
- [2] með ölmusum: ölmusu 344a
- [4] borit: beðit 344a
- [4] af: frá 343a
- [4] borði: borðit 344a, porti 343a, 471
- [6] Úlfs‑: yngs 344a, ygs 343a, yggs 471
- [7] höggvinn: högginn 344a
- [8] bark: bar 344a, 343a, 471
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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Holm perg 7 4° (7) — 54v/13 - 54v/14
imagesþu hefir Oddr farit með aulmusum ok bitlinga borit af borði · enn ek .i. af vlfs fialli · haugguinn | skiolld ihenndi bark.
(HA)
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AM 344 a 4° (344a) — 21v/3 - 21v/4
Þú hefir, Oddr, þegit
images
ölmusu
ok bitlinga
beðit af borðit,
en ek einn
af yngsfjalli
högginn skjöld
í hendi bar. -
AM 343 a 4° (343a) — 77r/17 - 77r/18
Þú hefir, Oddr, farit
images
með ölmusum
ok bitlinga
borit frá porti,
en ek einn
af ygsfjalli
höggvinn skjöld
í hendi bar. -
AM 471 4° (471) — 88v - 88v
Þú hefir, Oddr,
images
með ölmusum
ok bitlinga
borit af porti,
en ek einn
af yggsfjalli
höggvinn skjöld
í hendi bar. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 27v/22 - 27v/23
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