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.
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
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
[2] í Svíaskerjum: so 343a, 471, þar í Svíaskerjum 7, Svíaskerjum í 344a
Svíaskerjum ‘the skerries of the Swedes’
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Svíasker (noun n.)
[2] í Svíaskerjum: so 343a, 471, þar í Svíaskerjum 7, Svíaskerjum í 344a
þá ‘when’
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2. þá (adv.): then
er ‘we’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
Hálfdani ‘Hálfdan’
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Halfdan (noun m.): Hálfdan
heiptir ‘for hostilities’
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heift (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): hatred, enmity
guldum ‘repaid’
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1. gjalda (verb): pay, repay
Urðu ‘were’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
randir ‘The shields’
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rǫnd (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; rendr/randir): shield, shield-rim
róg ‘of the strife’
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róg (noun n.; °-s): strife, slander < rógmikluðr (noun m.): [strife-increaser]
[6] rógmiklaðar: so 343a, 471, rógmiklaðra 7, raun mjök lagðar 344a
kennings
rógmiklaðar‘of the strife-increaser ’
= WARRIOR
the strife-increaser → WARRIOR
notes
[6] rógmiklaðar ‘of the strife-increaser [WARRIOR]’: The reading of 343a and 471; this hap. leg. cpd noun presumably refers to Hálfdan. Both Skj B (also LP: rógmikluðr) and Skald adopt this reading, while Edd. Min. and Ǫrv 1888 and 1892 prefer the reading of 7, rógmiklaðra ‘of the strife-increased ones’, where the cpd would have to be an adj. in gen. pl., giving a rather awkward and unprecedented kenning.
miklaðar ‘increaser’
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-mikluðr (noun m.) < rógmikluðr (noun m.): [strife-increaser]
[6] rógmiklaðar: so 343a, 471, rógmiklaðra 7, raun mjök lagðar 344a
kennings
rógmiklaðar‘of the strife-increaser ’
= WARRIOR
the strife-increaser → WARRIOR
notes
[6] rógmiklaðar ‘of the strife-increaser [WARRIOR]’: The reading of 343a and 471; this hap. leg. cpd noun presumably refers to Hálfdan. Both Skj B (also LP: rógmikluðr) and Skald adopt this reading, while Edd. Min. and Ǫrv 1888 and 1892 prefer the reading of 7, rógmiklaðra ‘of the strife-increased ones’, where the cpd would have to be an adj. in gen. pl., giving a rather awkward and unprecedented kenning.
sverðum ‘with swords’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
notes
[7] skornar ‘cut through’: Ms. 344a’s skýfðar ‘shoved, pushed’ gives less good sense here.
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
sjálfr ‘himself’
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sjalfr (adj.): self
drepinn ‘was killed’
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drepa (verb; °drepr; drap, drápu; drepinn): kill, strike
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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.
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