ǪrvOdd Lv 8VIII (Ǫrv 40)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 40 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 853.
text and translation
Slóttu við meyjar málþing, Sæólfr,
meðan loga létum leika of kynnum.
Unnum harðan Hadding drepinn,
ok Ölvi var aldrs um synjat.
Slóttu málþing við meyjar, Sæólfr, meðan létum loga leika of kynnum. Unnum harðan Hadding drepinn, ok Ölvi var um synjat aldrs.
‘You carried on assignations with girls, Sjólfr, while we made flames play around families. We killed the hardy Haddingr and Ǫlvir was deprived of life. ’
notes and context
Oddr drains the two horns offered by Sjólfr and Sigurðr and they return to their seats. Then he stands up and carries a horn to each of them, reciting the following two stanzas.
Ms. 343a has been taken here as main ms., because there are grounds for thinking that ll. 1-2 in 7 have been affected by scribal dittography from the following stanza, Ǫrv 41/1-2, and there are also other inferior readings in this ms. Ms. 344a’s text is also inferior to those of 343a and 471.
readings
- [1] Slóttu: Sjólfr 7, sótti 344a
- [1] við: láttu um 7
- [1] meyjar: meyja 7, ‘meygiar’ 344a
- [2] mál‑: malm‑ 7
- [2] Sæólfr: saman 7, 344a
- [3] meðan loga létum: Sjólfr meðan 344a
- [4] leika: svíra 344a
- [4] of kynnum: so 471, ‘um kyni’ 343a, um konung 7, hjuggum 344a
- [6] Hadding: hilding 7, Hunding 344a, 471
- [7] ok: so all others, þá 343a
- [7] Ölvi: hans félögum 7
- [8] aldrs: aldr 7, 344a
- [8] um: of 7, 344a, 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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AM 343 a 4° (343a) — 77r/21 - 77r/23
imagesSlóttu við meyjar
málþing, Sæólfr,
meðan loga létum
leika †um kyni† .
Unnum harðan
Hadding drepinn,
þá Ölvi var
aldrs um synjat.Slottu | vid meyiar malþing · Sio · meðan loga lietum leika um kyni · unnum harðan hadding drepinn | · þa aulfi uar alldrs um syniat ·
(HA)
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Holm perg 7 4° (7) — 54v - 54v
Sjólfr láttu um meyja
images
malm-þing, saman,
meðan loga létum
leika um konung .
Unnum harðan
hilding drepinn,
ok hans félögum var
aldr of synjat. -
AM 344 a 4° (344a) — 21v/8 - 21v/9
sótti við †meygiar†
images
málþing, saman,
Sjólfr meðan
svíra hjuggum .
Unnum harðan
Hunding drepinn,
ok Ölvi var
aldr of synjat. -
AM 471 4° (471) — 88v - 88v
Slóttu við meyjar
images
málþing, Sæólfr,
meðan loga létum
leika of kynnum.
Unnum harðan
Hunding drepinn,
ok Ölvi var
aldrs of synjat. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 27v/27 - 27v/28
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