ǪrvOdd Lv 25VIII (Ǫrv 58)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 58 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 25)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 871.
Nú hefi ek órar iðnir talðar,
þær er forðum vér framðar höfðum.
Opt gengum vér til öndvegis
sigri fegnir; látum Sjólf mæla!
Nú hefi ek talðar iðnir órar, þær er vér höfðum framðar forðum. Vér gengum opt fegnir sigri til öndvegis; látum Sjólf mæla!
Now I have enumerated our [my] deeds, those which we [I] have performed formerly. Often we [I] went to the high seat rejoicing in victory; let us [me] make Sjólfr speak!
Mss: 7(55r), 344a(22r), 343a(77v), 471(89v) (Ǫrv)
Readings: [1] órar: várar 344a, 343a, 471 [3] vér: om. 343a [4] höfðum: ‘h[…]fðum’ 343a [5] Opt: aptr with superscript r changed from m in scribal hand 344a, aptr 343a, 471; gengum vér: geng ek nú 344a [7] fegnir: ‘fegen’ or ‘fegens’ changed in a later hand from fegnir 344a, gæddir 343a, 471
Editions: Skj AII, 303, Skj BII, 322, Skald II, 172; Ǫrv 1888, 167, Ǫrv 1892, 84, FSGJ 2, 320; Edd. Min. 70.
Context: As for Ǫrv 53.
Notes: [All]: Aside from l. 1, all pronouns, adjectives and verbs in this stanza are pl., but it is assumed that Oddr is speaking of himself here, though it is possible that he includes his close companions. — [7] fegnir sigri ‘rejoicing in victory’: The younger mss 343a and 471 have gæddir sigri ‘enriched with victory’, which is also a possible reading.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
- Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
- Ǫrv 1892 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1892a. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Altnordische Saga-Bibliothek 2. Halle: Niemayer.
- Internal references
- 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.
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