Hjálm Lv 2VIII (Ǫrv 6)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 6 (Hjálmarr inn hugumstóri, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 818.
frák ‘I have heard’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
manna ‘of men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
meinúðgasta ‘the most evil-minded’
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meinúðigr (adj.)
[2] meinúðgasta: ‘mein udgadzt[…]’ 343a, ‘meinauðugazta’ 173ˣ
ógjarnasta ‘most un-eager’
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ógjarn (adj.)
[3] ógjarnasta: ‘og’ added before ‘ogiarnazta’ in another hand 344a, ok ógjarnasta 343a, 471, 173ˣ
gott ‘good’
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góðr (adj.): good
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
vinna ‘do’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
Þeir ‘Those’
[5] Þeir berserkir: þeir eru berserks 343a, 471, þeir eru af berserks 173ˣ
notes
[5] þeir berserkir ‘those berserks’: Understood as the idiom þeir plus a collective noun meaning ‘group of’, ‘band of’. Skj B prefers to add the verb eru in the reduced form ro, þeir ro berserkir ‘they are berserks’, following the younger mss, but this does not seem necessary. Edd. Min. deletes þeir and reads er berserkir.
berserkir ‘berserks’
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berserkr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir, gen. -ja): Berserk
[5] Þeir berserkir: þeir eru berserks 343a, 471, þeir eru af berserks 173ˣ
notes
[5] þeir berserkir ‘those berserks’: Understood as the idiom þeir plus a collective noun meaning ‘group of’, ‘band of’. Skj B prefers to add the verb eru in the reduced form ro, þeir ro berserkir ‘they are berserks’, following the younger mss, but this does not seem necessary. Edd. Min. deletes þeir and reads er berserkir.
böls ‘enmity’
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bǫl (noun n.; °-s, dat. bǫlvi): evil
[6] böls um fyldir: ‘boli upfylldir’ 173ˣ
tvau ‘two’
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tveir (num. cardinal): two
skip ‘ships’
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skip (noun n.; °-s; -): ship
hruðu ‘cleared’
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1. hrjóða (verb): clear, destroy
tryggra ‘of trusty’
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tryggr (adj.; °tryggan/tryggvan; compar. -ari/-vari; superl. -jastr/-astr): loyal
manna ‘men’
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maðr (noun m.): man, person
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[7-8]: It is not clear whether these lines refer to the event that the prose text of Ǫrv narrates immediately before Hjálmarr and Oddr hear the berserks roaring or to some other incident. While the two heroes are off getting timber to repair their boats, the twelve berserks massacre their crew (Ǫrv 1888, 96). This event is alluded to also in Ǫrv 7/7-8 below.
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