ǪrvOdd Lv 15VIII (Ǫrv 48)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 48 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 15)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 861.
text and translation
Sigurðr, vartu eigi í Svíaskerjum,
þá er Hálfdani heiptir guldum.
Urðu randir rógmiklaðar
sverðum skornar, en hann sjálfr drepinn.
Sigurðr, vartu eigi í Svíaskerjum, þá er guldum Hálfdani heiptir. Randir {rógmiklaðar} urðu skornar sverðum, en hann sjálfr drepinn.
‘Sigurðr, you were not in the skerries of the Swedes, when we repaid Hálfdan for hostilities. The shields of the strife-increaser [WARRIOR] were cut through with swords, and he himself was killed. ’
notes and context
As for Ǫrv 47.
The events alluded to in this stanza occur in an early part of the saga (Ǫrv 1888, 50-7; Ǫrv 1892, 27-9), shortly after Oddr’s return to Hrafnista from his adventures in Permia and Risaland (Giantland). He decides to go on a viking adventure and gets his father, Grímr loðinkinni ‘Hairy-cheek’, to equip three ships for him. He then provokes a fight with a viking called Hálfdan, the commander of thirty ships, who uses the skerries in the mouth of the Götaälv (Elfarsker) as his base. Oddr and Ásmundr take Hálfdan by means of a surprise attack and kill him. There is a major discrepancy between this stanza and the prose text; in the prose, Hálfdan’s base is in the Götaälv skerries, while in the stanza it is in the skerries around the Stockholm archipelago (Svíasker). A location on the west coast of Sweden would be more logical from the perspective of an expedition mounted from Norway. — [3-4]: These lines are also discrepant with the prose text, which represents Oddr’s attack on Hálfdan as a completely unprovoked act of viking bravado.
readings
- [1] Sigurðr: ok Sigurðr 7
- [2] í Svíaskerjum: so 343a, 471, þar í Svíaskerjum 7, Svíaskerjum í 344a
- [6] rógmiklaðar: so 343a, 471, rógmiklaðra 7, raun mjök lagðar 344a
- [7] skornar: skýfðar 344a
sources
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.
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Holm perg 7 4° (7) — 54v/34 - 54v/35
imagesok Sigurðr, vartu eigi
þar í Svíaskerjum ,
þá er Hálfdani
heiptir guldum.
Urðu randir
rógmiklaðra
sverðum skornar,
en hann sjálfr drepinn.Ok sigurðr uartu eigi þar isuia skerium · þa er halfdani heiptir gulldum urðu ranndir rog micklaðra | suerðum skornar enn hann sialfr drepinn ·
(HA)
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AM 344 a 4° (344a) — 21v/23 - 21v/25
Sigurðr, vartu eigi
images
Svíaskerjum í ,
þá er Hálfdani
heiptir guldum.
Urðu randir
raun mjök lagðar
sverðum skýfðar,
en hann sjálfr drepinn. -
AM 343 a 4° (343a) — 77r/40 - 77r/42
Sigurðr, vartu eigi
images
í Svíaskerjum,
þá er Hálfdani
heiptir guldum.
Urðu randir
rógmiklaðar
sverðum skornar,
en hann sjálfr drepinn. -
AM 471 4° (471) — 89r - 89r
Sigurðr, vartu eigi
images
í Svíaskerjum,
þá er Hálfdani
heiptir guldum.
Urðu randir
rógmiklaðar
sverðum skornar,
en hann sjálfr drepinn. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 28r/19 - 28r/20
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