ǪrvOdd Lv 14VIII (Ǫrv 47)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 47 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 14)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 860.
Sjólfr ‘Sjólfr’
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Sjolfr (noun m.)
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
suðr ‘south’
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2. suðr (adv.): south, in the south
á ‘at’
notes
[2] Skíðu ‘Skien’: If this, the reading of 343a, is adopted, the stanza refers to Skien (ON Skíða), a place in Telemark, southern Norway, but if Skíði, the reading of 7 and 471 is followed, then the location of the action mentioned here is on the island of Skye (ON Skíð) in the Hebrides. Most mss of the saga text (Ǫrv 1888, 54, 55, 57, 86, 87) support the former reading, in that the p. n. Skíða is mentioned several times, both in the story of Oddr’s encounter with the viking Sóti and in connection with what happens shortly after his dealings with another viking, Skolli, in Northumberland (see Ǫrv 44 Note to [All]). After this, according to 344a, Oddr’s party sailed south to Skien (ok sigldu þaðan suðr til Skíðu, Ǫrv 1888, 86). The reading Skíðu is adopted by Edd. Min. and in Ǫrv 1888 and 1892, as well as in the present edn. On the other hand, it is just possible that an earlier version of the story extended Oddr’s adventures in the British Isles to the island of Skye. Skj B and Skald prefer this view, and read Skíði here.
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
[3] þar er: so 343a, þar 7, þar sem 344a, þá er 471
kníðu ‘struck’
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knýja (verb): press forward, urge, drive
[4] kníðu: knúðu 344a, 343a, 471
hjálma ‘helmets’
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1. hjalmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): helmet
[4] hjálma: hildi 344a, ‘hialmara’ 471
Óðum ‘We waded’
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vaða (verb): advance, wade
dreyra ‘in blood’
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dreyri (noun m.; °-a): blood
svá ‘so’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
ökla ‘our ankles’
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ǫkkla (noun n.; °; -u): °ankel; (på søjle) fundament, sokkel, fodstykke
tók ‘it came up’
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2. taka (verb): take
víg ‘fighting’
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víg (noun n.; °-s; -): battle
notes
[7] ek vakða víg ‘I aroused fighting’: Finnur Jónsson produces a composite line, presumably to ‘improve’ the metre, combining readings from 7 and 344a, víg vakðak mǫrg ‘I provoked many fights’, and in this he is followed by Skald.
notes
[7] ek vakða víg ‘I aroused fighting’: Finnur Jónsson produces a composite line, presumably to ‘improve’ the metre, combining readings from 7 and 344a, víg vakðak mǫrg ‘I provoked many fights’, and in this he is followed by Skald.
notes
[7] ek vakða víg ‘I aroused fighting’: Finnur Jónsson produces a composite line, presumably to ‘improve’ the metre, combining readings from 7 and 344a, víg vakðak mǫrg ‘I provoked many fights’, and in this he is followed by Skald.
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
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After delivering Ǫrv 45 and 46, Oddr returns to his seat and his rivals empty their horns. They then bring Oddr refilled horns and hand them to him, but are by now so affected by drink that they cannot speak. Oddr drains his horns and presents Sjólfr and Sigurðr with new ones, carrying them over and speaking the following two stanzas.
This stanza refers to a short episode in the saga (Ǫrv 1888, 86-9; Ǫrv 1892, 45-6) immediately following Oddr’s and Hjálmarr’s encounter with the viking Skolli in England. They sail from there south to Skien according to 344a and the younger mss, but east to Norway and to the Götaälv (við Elfina) according to 7, and there they fight a battle with two kings, one named Hlǫðver, the other Haki (the latter named only in the younger mss), who had thirty ships. Ten ships attack the heroes as they are lying close to the shore, and, in a tough fight, the heroes prevail, but then they are attacked by the other twenty. Eventually, both kings and their armies are killed, but most of Oddr’s force is killed too.
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