Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 41 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 9)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 854.
Þú látt, Sigurðr, í sal meyja,
meðan við Bjarma börðumz tysvar.
Háðum hildi heldr snarliga,
en þú, seggr, í sal svaft und blæju.
Sigurðr, þú látt í sal meyja, meðan börðumz tysvar við Bjarma. Háðum hildi heldr snarliga, en þú, seggr, svaft í sal und blæju.
‘Sigurðr, you lay in the girls’ room, while we fought twice against the Permians. We conducted the battle rather keenly, but you, fellow, were sleeping in a hall under a bed-cover. ’
As for Ǫrv 40.
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en þú látt, Sigurðr,
í sal meyja,
meðan við Bjarma
börðumz tysvar.
Háðum hildi
heldr snarliga,
en þú, seggr, í sal
svaft und blæju.
Enn þu latt sigurðr isal meyia · meðan við biarma baurðumz tysuar · haðum hilldr helldr snar | liga enn þu seɢr i sal suaft unnd blęio᷎ ·
(HA)
Þú látt, Sjólfr,
í sal meyja,
meðan við Bjarma
börðumz tysvar.
Háðum hildi
†hꜹgg† snarliga,
en þú, Sigurðr,
svaft undir blæju.
Þú látt, Sigurðr,
í sal meyja,
meðan við Bjarma
börðumz tysvar.
Háðum hildi
hauk- snarliga,
en þú, seggr, í sal
svaft undir blæju.
Þú látt, Sigurðr,
í sal meyjar,
meðan við Bjarma
börðumz tysvar.
Háðum hildi
†hard† snarliga,
en þú, seggr, í sal
svaft und blæju.
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