ǪrvOdd Lv 20VIII (Ǫrv 53)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 53 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 20)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 867.
text and translation
Þit munuð hvergi hæfir þykkja,
Sigurðr ok Sjólfr, í sveit konungs,
ef ek Hjálmars get ins hugumstóra,
þess er snarligast sverði beitti.
Þit munuð hvergi þykkja hæfir í sveit konungs, Sigurðr ok Sjólfr, ef ek get Hjálmars ins hugumstóra, þess er beitti sverði snarligast.
‘You two will nowhere appear worthy in a king’s retinue, Sigurðr and Sjólfr, if I mention Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri (‘the Great-minded‘), the one who wielded the sword most keenly. ’
notes and context
After the audience in the king’s hall has shown its appreciation of Oddr’s satirical verses, Sjólfr brings him new horns, Sigurðr having now passed out, which Oddr drinks down. He approaches Sjólfr with this and the following five stanzas, which are cited in the text without prose intervention.
readings
- [1] munuð: mund 344a, munið 471
- [2] hæfir: hœfa 173ˣ
- [3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr: so 343a, 173ˣ, ‘s. ok s.’ 7, 344a, ‘Sig. ok si.’ 471
- [4] sveit: so 343a, 471, 173ˣ, corrected from höll 7, höll 344a
- [4] konungs: konungi 471
- [5] get: so all others, getk 7
- [7] þess: sá 471, þá 173ˣ
- [7] snar‑: snarp‑ 344a, 343a, 471, 173ˣ
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) — 55r/12 - 55r/13
imagesÞit munuð hvergi
hæfir þykkja,
†s. ok s.† ,
í konungs,
ef ek Hjálmars getk
ins hugumstóra,
þess er snarligast
sverði beitti.þit munuð huergi hęfir þickia | s. ok s. i sueit (corrected from ‘haull’) konungs ef ek hialmars getk ens hugum stora. þess er snarligazt suerði beitti.
(HA)
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AM 344 a 4° (344a) — 22r/7 - 22r/9
Þit mund hvergi
images
hæfir þykkja,
†s. ok s.† ,
í höll konungs,
ef ek Hjálmars get
ins hugumstóra,
þess er snarp-ligast
sverði beitti. -
AM 343 a 4° (343a) — 77v/14 - 77v/16
Þit munuð hvergi
images
hæfir þykkja,
Sigurðr ok Sjólfr,
í sveit konungs,
ef ek Hjálmars get
ins hugumstóra,
þess er snarp-ligast
sverði beitti. -
AM 471 4° (471) — 89r - 89r
Þit munið hvergi
images
hæfir þykkja,
†Sig. ok si.† ,
í sveit konungi,
ef ek Hjálmars get
ins hugumstóra,
sá er snarp-ligast
sverði beitti. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 54r/16 - 54r/19
Þit munuð hvergi
images
hœfa þykkja,
Sigurðr ok Sjólfr,
í sveit konungs,
ef ek Hjálmars get
ins hugumstóra,
þá er snarp-ligast
sverði beitti. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 28v/7 - 28v/9
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