Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 44 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 11)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 857.
Sigurðr, vartu eigi þar er sex hruðum
hábrynjuð skip fyr Hólmsnesi.
Vartu ok eigi vestr með Skolla,
þá er Engla gram aldri næmðum.
Sigurðr, vartu eigi, þar er hruðum sex hábrynjuð skip fyr Hólmsnesi. Vartu ok eigi vestr með Skolla, þá er næmðum gram Engla aldri.
‘Sigurðr, you were not there where we cleared six armoured ships before Hólmsnes. Nor were you in the west with Skolli, when we deprived the ruler of the English of life. ’
As for Ǫrv 43. There is no intervening prose between the two stanzas.
The incident with Skolli referred to in this stanza is narrated in ch. 25 of the saga (Ǫrv 1888, 85-7; Ǫrv 1892, 44-6) and also referred to in Ævdr 30 (Ǫrv 100). After a return visit to Ireland, where Oddr marries Ǫlvǫr (see Introduction to Ǫlvǫr Lv 1 (Ǫrv 4)), Oddr and Hjálmarr sail to England, and they learn that a viking named Skolli is lying at anchor there with forty ships. He has a grudge against the reigning king of the English, named as Játmundr (Edmund) in some mss, because the king has killed his father. Oddr, who initially intended to fight Skolli, joins him, and their combined forces succeed in conquering the English army and killing their king. Skolli takes over the kingdom, after Oddr and Hjálmarr have refused to accept it.
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.
Sigurðr, vartu ei
þar er †vi† hruðum
hábrynjuð skip
fyr Hólmsnesi.
Vartu ok eigi
vestr með Skolla,
þá er Engla gram
aldri næmðum.
Sigurðr uartu ei þar er .vi. ruðum. ha bryniott skip fyr holms nesi. uartu ok eigi uestr með skolla · þa | er eingla gram alldri næmðum ·
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Sigurðr, vartu eigi
þar er †sꜹx rꜹdum†
hardla snarliga
fyr haugs-nesi.
Vartu eigi
vestr með Skolla,
þá er Engla gram
aldri námum.
Sigurðr, vartu eigi
þar er †vi† hruðum
hábyrðuð skip
fyr hauks-nesi.
Vartu ok eigi
vestr með Skolla,
þá er Engla gram
aldri næmðum.
Sjólfr, vartu eigi
þar er sex hruðum
hábrynjuð skip
fyr hvarfs-nesi.
Vartu eigi
vestr með Skolla,
þá er Engla gram
aldri næmðum.
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