ǪrvOdd Lv 21VIII (Ǫrv 54)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 54 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 21)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 868.
Gekk ‘went’
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2. ganga (verb; geng, gekk, gengu, genginn): walk, go
skarpr ‘Strong’
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skarpr (adj.): sharp, bitter
[1] skarpr: snarpligast 344a, snarpr 343a, 471
notes
[All]: Boer (Ǫrv 1892, 84 n.) argued that all the final stanzas of Oddr’s mannjafnaðr (Ǫrv 54-8) were originally part of an Ævdr earlier than that preserved in the younger mss. It is certainly true that all except the last (and that perfunctorily) lack the challenges and insults directed to the speaker’s rivals that are typical of the mannjafnaðr.
fyr ‘in front’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
notes
[All]: Stanza 54 seems to refer to the same viking named Hálfdan who was alluded to in Ǫrv 48/3 (see Note to [All] to this stanza for references to the prose text). However, Oddr’s blood-brother Þórðr stafngláma ‘Prow-gleam’, whom he does not meet until after Hálfdan’s death, was not involved in that confrontation, according to the prose saga.
skjöldu ‘of the shields’
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skjǫldr (noun m.; °skjaldar/skildar, dat. skildi; skildir, acc. skjǫldu): shield
er ‘we’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
orrostu ‘a battle’
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orrusta (noun f.; °-u; -ur): battle
eiga ‘to fight’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
skyldum ‘had’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
[4] skyldum: skyldum corrected from ‘skyddvm’ 344a, ‘skydum’ 471
Hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
lét ‘made’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
Hálfdan ‘Hálfdan’
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Halfdan (noun m.): Hálfdan
hníga ‘fall’
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hníga (verb): sink, fall
at ‘to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
velli ‘the ground’
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vǫllr (noun m.; °vallar, dat. velli; vellir acc. vǫllu/velli): plain, field
stilli ‘leader’
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stillir (noun m.): ruler
ok ‘together with’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hans ‘his’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
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As for Ǫrv 53.
[1]: As it stands, this line is hypometrical, but could be rendered metrical by desyllabification of either skarpr or Þórðr.
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