Sigurðr Lv 2VIII (Ǫrv 39)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 39 (Sigurðr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 852.
Oddr ‘Oddr’
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oddr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): point of weapon
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
út ‘abroad’
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út (adv.): out(side)
með ‘among’
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með (prep.): with
notes
[2] með Girkjum ‘among the Greeks’: The forms Girkjar and Grikkjar are common variants in skaldic verse (cf. indices of ethnic names in SkP II and VII).
notes
[2] með Girkjum ‘among the Greeks’: The forms Girkjar and Grikkjar are common variants in skaldic verse (cf. indices of ethnic names in SkP II and VII).
þá ‘when’
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2. þá (adv.): then
er ‘we’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
notes
[3] á Serkjum ‘on the Saracens’: The ethnic name Serkir and the region of Serkland ‘land of the Saracens’ are often vaguely defined in Old Norse literature, but generally refer to the eastern Mediterranean, including parts of North Africa, the Levant and the region south of the Caspian Sea; see Jesch (2001a, 104-7); Shepard (1982-5).
Serkjum ‘the Saracens’
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2. serkr (noun m.; °; gen. -ja): Saracen
notes
[3] á Serkjum ‘on the Saracens’: The ethnic name Serkir and the region of Serkland ‘land of the Saracens’ are often vaguely defined in Old Norse literature, but generally refer to the eastern Mediterranean, including parts of North Africa, the Levant and the region south of the Caspian Sea; see Jesch (2001a, 104-7); Shepard (1982-5).
sverð ‘swords’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
Gerðum ‘We made’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
harðan ‘the harsh’
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harðr (adj.; °comp. -ari; superl. -astr): hard, harsh
[5] harðan: ‘hafan’ 344a, 343a, 471
kennings
harðan hljóm ísarna;‘the harsh music of iron weapons; ’
= BATTLE
the harsh music of iron weapons; → BATTLE
hljóm ‘music’
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hljómr (noun m.; °dat. -i): sound
kennings
harðan hljóm ísarna;‘the harsh music of iron weapons; ’
= BATTLE
the harsh music of iron weapons; → BATTLE
ísarna ‘of iron weapons’
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ísarn (noun n.; °; -): iron
[6] ísarna: af sverðum 344a, stál járna 343a
kennings
harðan hljóm ísarna;‘the harsh music of iron weapons; ’
= BATTLE
the harsh music of iron weapons; → BATTLE
fellu ‘fell’
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falla (verb): fall
fyrðar ‘men’
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2. fyrðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -): man
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
notes
[8] í fólkroði ‘in the army-reddening [BATTLE]’: Understood here as a kenning for battle; cf. Ǫrv 35/2 at eggroði ‘at the blade-reddening’, a similar battle-kenning (cf. Meissner 201 for other examples). LP: folkroð, however, considers the form to stand for folkhroð ‘battle-destruction’, in which the second element derives from hrjóða ‘unload, strip, clear (a ship)’ and the first element, folk, is used both in the sense of ‘people, army’ and ‘battle’. See further NN §2406.
fólk ‘the army’
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folk (noun n.): people < folkroð (noun n.): [army-reddening]
kennings
fólkroði.‘the army-reddening. ’
= BATTLE
the army-reddening. → BATTLE
notes
[8] í fólkroði ‘in the army-reddening [BATTLE]’: Understood here as a kenning for battle; cf. Ǫrv 35/2 at eggroði ‘at the blade-reddening’, a similar battle-kenning (cf. Meissner 201 for other examples). LP: folkroð, however, considers the form to stand for folkhroð ‘battle-destruction’, in which the second element derives from hrjóða ‘unload, strip, clear (a ship)’ and the first element, folk, is used both in the sense of ‘people, army’ and ‘battle’. See further NN §2406.
roði ‘reddening’
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2. roð (noun n.) < folkroð (noun n.): [army-reddening]
kennings
fólkroði.‘the army-reddening. ’
= BATTLE
the army-reddening. → BATTLE
notes
[8] í fólkroði ‘in the army-reddening [BATTLE]’: Understood here as a kenning for battle; cf. Ǫrv 35/2 at eggroði ‘at the blade-reddening’, a similar battle-kenning (cf. Meissner 201 for other examples). LP: folkroð, however, considers the form to stand for folkhroð ‘battle-destruction’, in which the second element derives from hrjóða ‘unload, strip, clear (a ship)’ and the first element, folk, is used both in the sense of ‘people, army’ and ‘battle’. See further NN §2406.
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Sigurðr brings Oddr another horn and speaks this stanza.
This stanza follows a common pattern of the mannjafnaðr, repeated in Ǫrv 42-8 and 51, in which the challenger mentions a fight or adventure in which he took part, but in which his opponent was notably absent, and implies that this was because of the opponent’s cowardice. Boer (1892b, 131) argued that this stanza’s reference to the Greeks and the Saracens indicates that it could not have been composed before the crusades of the C12th. However, the Serkir and Serkland are mentioned in several skaldic poems of the C11th (LP: Serkir and Serkland) as well as on several Swedish rune stones (see Note to l. 3 below).
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