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.
Þit ‘You two’
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it (pron.; °gen. ykkar, dat./acc. ykkr): you (two)
hvergi ‘nowhere’
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1. hvergi (adv.): nowhere
þykkja ‘appear’
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2. þykkja (verb): seem, think
Sigurðr ‘Sigurðr’
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Sigurðr (noun m.): Sigurðr
[3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr: so 343a, 173ˣ, ‘s. ok s.’ 7, 344a, ‘Sig. ok si.’ 471
notes
[3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr ‘Sigurðr and Sjólfr’: Cf. Ǫrv 36/3 and Note for discussion of the spelling of Sjólfr’s name.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
[3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr: so 343a, 173ˣ, ‘s. ok s.’ 7, 344a, ‘Sig. ok si.’ 471
notes
[3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr ‘Sigurðr and Sjólfr’: Cf. Ǫrv 36/3 and Note for discussion of the spelling of Sjólfr’s name.
Sjólfr ‘Sjólfr’
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Sjolfr (noun m.)
[3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr: so 343a, 173ˣ, ‘s. ok s.’ 7, 344a, ‘Sig. ok si.’ 471
notes
[3] Sigurðr ok Sjólfr ‘Sigurðr and Sjólfr’: Cf. Ǫrv 36/3 and Note for discussion of the spelling of Sjólfr’s name.
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
sveit ‘a king’s’
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sveit (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): host, company
[4] sveit: so 343a, 471, 173ˣ, corrected from höll 7, höll 344a
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
Hjálmars ‘Hjálmarr’
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Hjalmarr (noun m.): Hjálmarr
get ‘mention’
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2. geta (verb): to beget, give birth to, mention, speak of; to think well of, like, love
[5] get: so all others, getk 7
ins ‘inn hugumstóri (‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
hugum ‘minded‘)’
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hugr (noun m.): mind, thought, courage < hugumstórr (adj.)
stóra ‘Great’
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stórr (adj.): large, great < hugumstórr (adj.)
þess ‘the one’
[7] þess: sá 471, þá 173ˣ
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
snar ‘most’
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snarr (adj.): gallant, bold < snarligr (adj.): keen, quick-witted
[7] snar‑: snarp‑ 344a, 343a, 471, 173ˣ
notes
[7] snarligast ‘most keenly’: The form snarpligast (from snarpr ‘rough, keen, sharp’) means much the same as the lemma.
ligast ‘keenly’
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-ligr (adj.): -ly < snarligr (adj.): keen, quick-witted
notes
[7] snarligast ‘most keenly’: The form snarpligast (from snarpr ‘rough, keen, sharp’) means much the same as the lemma.
sverði ‘the sword’
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sverð (noun n.; °-s; -): sword
beitti ‘wielded’
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2. beita (verb; °-tt-): beat, tack
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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.
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