ǪrvOdd Lv 10VIII (Ǫrv 43)
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.
vartu ‘you were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
er ‘where’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
sjá ‘see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
knátti ‘one could’
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knega (verb): to know, understand, be able to
[2] knátti: mátti 344a, máttum 343a, knáttum 471
brynjur ‘the mail-coats’
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1. brynja (noun f.; °-u (dat. brynnoni Gibb 38⁹); -ur): mailcoat
manna ‘of men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
blóði ‘with blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood
þvegnar ‘washed’
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þveginn (adj.): [washed]
Hrukku ‘struck on’
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1. hrøkkva (verb): coil
oddar ‘Weapon-points’
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oddr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): point of weapon
í ‘’
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í (prep.): in, into
hring ‘mail’
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1. hringr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ar): ring; sword < hringserkr (noun m.): ring-shirt
[6] hring‑: so 343a, járn‑ 7, 471, ‘hill’ 344a
notes
[6] hringserkjum ‘mail-shirts’: The reading of 343a, which gives alliteration in ll. 5-6; 7 and 471 have the non-alliterating járnserkjum ‘iron shirts’.
serkjum ‘shirts’
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1. serkr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): shirt < hringserkr (noun m.): ring-shirt
notes
[6] hringserkjum ‘mail-shirts’: The reading of 343a, which gives alliteration in ll. 5-6; 7 and 471 have the non-alliterating járnserkjum ‘iron shirts’.
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
höll ‘the king’s’
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1. hǫll (noun f.; °hallar, dat. -u/-; hallir): hall
konungs ‘hall’
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
kannaðir ‘you preferred’
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3. kanna (verb): know, be able
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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.
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