Gyðja Lv 3VIII (Ǫrv 63 [a])
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 63 (Gyðja, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 878.
ólu ‘brought’
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ala (verb; °elr; ól, ólu; alinn): to beget, produce, procreate
[1] ólu: ól 173ˣ
þik ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
heimskan ‘stupid’
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heimskr (adj.; °comp. -ari, superl. -astr): foolish
[2] heimskan: mikillar ergi 173ˣ
er ‘that’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
þú ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
eigi ‘are not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
[3] eigi vill: so 343a, 471, eigi 344a, villt ei 173ˣ
vill ‘willing’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
[3] eigi vill: so 343a, 471, eigi 344a, villt ei 173ˣ
blóta ‘to sacrifice’
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2. blóta (verb; °-að-): sacrifice
[4] blóta: so all others, blótar 344a
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See Introduction to stanzas 59-70. Stanza 63ab is a dialogue between Gyðja and Oddr. Lines 1-4 (Ǫrv 63a) are introduced with the words þá kvað hon ‘then she said’, while lines 5-8 (Ǫrv 63b) are Oddr’s reply, beginning þá kvað Oddr ‘then Oddr said’.
Stanzas 63ab-70 are not present in ms. 7, although two pairs of lines from sts 61 and 62 in 7 are variants of parts of sts 66 and 69 in the other mss.
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