Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 43 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 10)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 856.
Sjólfr, vartu eigi, þar er sjá knátti
brynjur manna, blóði þvegnar.
Hrukku oddar í hringserkjum,
en höll konungs heldr kannaðir.
Sjólfr, vartu eigi, þar er knátti sjá brynjur manna þvegnar blóði. Oddar hrukku í hringserkjum, en kannaðir heldr höll konungs.
‘Sjólfr, you were not there where one could see the mail-coats of men washed with blood. Weapon-points struck on mail-shirts, but you preferred to explore the king’s hall. ’
The drink now starts to affect Sigurðr so that he is unable to speak or compose poetry as he should at this point, which is a sign of his inferior powers in the mannjafnaðr. Sjólfr and Sigurðr now go to sit down, while Oddr drains the horns they have brought him. He then approaches his rivals with two horns and speaks the following two stanzas.
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.
Sjólfr, vartu eigi,
þar er sjá knátti
brynjur manna,
blóði þvegnar.
Hrukku oddar
í járn-serkjum,
en höll konungs
heldr kannaðir.
Siolfr vartu eigi þar er sia knatti | brynior manna bloði þuegnar · hrucku oddar iiarnserkium enn þu haull konungs helldr kannaðir
(HA)
Sjólfr, vartu eigi,
þar er sjá mátti
brynjur manna,
blóði þvegnar.
Hrukku oddar
í †hill†serkjum,
en höll konungs
†hꜹlldr† kannaðir.
Sjólfr, vartu eigi,
þar er sjá máttum
brynjur manna,
blóði þvegnar.
Hrukku oddar
í hringserkjum,
en höll konungs
heldr kannaðir.
Sigurðr, vartu eigi,
þar er sjá knáttum
brynjur manna,
blóði þvegnar.
Hrukku oddar
í járn-serkjum,
en höll konungs
heldr kannaðir.
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