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.
Hverir ólu þik upp svá heimskan,
er þú eigi vill Óðin blóta?
Hverir ólu þik upp svá heimskan, er þú vill eigi blóta Óðin?
Which people brought you up so stupid that you are not willing to sacrifice to Óðinn?
Mss: 344a(23v), 343a(78v), 471(91v), 173ˣ(57r) (Ǫrv)
Readings: [1] Hverir: hver 173ˣ; ólu: ól 173ˣ [2] upp: svá upp 173ˣ; svá: til 343a, 471, til svá 173ˣ; heimskan: mikillar ergi 173ˣ [3] eigi vill: so 343a, 471, eigi 344a, villt ei 173ˣ [4] Óðin: ‘Odinom’ 173ˣ; blóta: so all others, blótar 344a
Editions: Skj AII, 304, Skj BII, 323, Skald II, 172; Ǫrv 1888, 180, FSGJ 2, 329; Edd. Min. 76.
Context: 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’.
Notes: [All]: 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.
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.
- Internal references
- 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.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 63 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 28)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 878.
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