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.
text and translation
Þá frák manna meinúðgasta,
ógjarnasta gott at vinna.
Þeir berserkir, böls um fyldir,
tvau skip hruðu tryggra manna.
Frák þá meinúðgasta manna, ógjarnasta at vinna gott. Þeir berserkir, um fyldir böls, hruðu tvau skip tryggra manna.
‘I have heard them [to be] the most evil-minded of men, most un-eager to do good. Those berserks, filled with enmity, cleared two ships of trusty men. ’
notes and context
This stanza, also spoken by Hjálmarr, continues straight on from the previous one without prose intervention.
[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.
readings
- [2] meinúðgasta: ‘mein udgadzt[…]’ 343a, ‘meinauðugazta’ 173ˣ
- [3] ógjarnasta: ‘og’ added before ‘ogiarnazta’ in another hand 344a, ok ógjarnasta 343a, 471, 173ˣ
- [5] Þeir berserkir: þeir eru berserks 343a, 471, þeir eru af berserks 173ˣ
- [6] böls um fyldir: ‘boli upfylldir’ 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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AM 344 a 4° (344a) — 16v/17 - 16v/19
imagesÞá frák manna
meinúðgasta,
†og†
gott at vinna.
Þeir berserkir,
böls um fyldir,
tvau skip hruðu
tryggra manna.þa fra ek manna meinudgazta | og ogiarnazta got at uinna þeir berserker. bauls of fyllder | ij skip rudu trygra manna.
(HA)
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AM 343 a 4° (343a) — 67v/25 - 67v/27
Þá frák manna
images
†mein udgadzt[…]†,
ok ógjarnasta
gott at vinna.
þeir eru berserks ,
böls um fyldir,
tvau skip hruðu
tryggra manna. -
AM 471 4° (471) — 74r - 74r
Þá frák manna
images
meinúðgasta,
ok ógjarnasta
gott at vinna.
þeir eru berserks ,
böls um fyldir,
tvau skip hruðu
tryggra manna. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 35r/30 - 35v/4
Þá frák manna
images
†meinauðugazta†,
ok ógjarnasta
gott at vinna.
þeir eru af berserks ,
†boli upfylldir† ,
tvau skip hruðu
tryggra manna. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 14r/9 - 14r/10
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