ǪrvOdd Lv 30VIII (Ǫrv 67)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 67 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 30)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 882.
Efldu ‘aided’
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efla (verb; °-fld-/-að-(RómvUpph¹ 382²⁴)): strengthen
[1] Efldu: ‘Elfdu’ 343a, ‘[…]’ 471
mik ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
örvar ‘The arrows’
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ǫr (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; ǫrvar/ǫrar): arrow
notes
[1-2] örvar ok smíði Jólfs ‘the arrows and Jólfr’s handiwork’: Presumably Oddr refers here both to the Gusisnautar, the three magical arrows which his ancestor Ketill hœngr obtained from the Saami king Gusir and which, according to Ǫrv, Oddr’s father Grímr gave to him (Ǫrv 1888, 24-5), and to the three stone arrows that he received from the old man Jólfr not long before the Bjálkaland expedition and used to lay Álfr low (or to kill Gyða, according to the version of 7).
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
notes
[1-2] örvar ok smíði Jólfs ‘the arrows and Jólfr’s handiwork’: Presumably Oddr refers here both to the Gusisnautar, the three magical arrows which his ancestor Ketill hœngr obtained from the Saami king Gusir and which, according to Ǫrv, Oddr’s father Grímr gave to him (Ǫrv 1888, 24-5), and to the three stone arrows that he received from the old man Jólfr not long before the Bjálkaland expedition and used to lay Álfr low (or to kill Gyða, according to the version of 7).
notes
[1-2] örvar ok smíði Jólfs ‘the arrows and Jólfr’s handiwork’: Presumably Oddr refers here both to the Gusisnautar, the three magical arrows which his ancestor Ketill hœngr obtained from the Saami king Gusir and which, according to Ǫrv, Oddr’s father Grímr gave to him (Ǫrv 1888, 24-5), and to the three stone arrows that he received from the old man Jólfr not long before the Bjálkaland expedition and used to lay Álfr low (or to kill Gyða, according to the version of 7).
smíði ‘handiwork’
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2. smíði (noun n.; °-s; -): well-made, -crafted
notes
[1-2] örvar ok smíði Jólfs ‘the arrows and Jólfr’s handiwork’: Presumably Oddr refers here both to the Gusisnautar, the three magical arrows which his ancestor Ketill hœngr obtained from the Saami king Gusir and which, according to Ǫrv, Oddr’s father Grímr gave to him (Ǫrv 1888, 24-5), and to the three stone arrows that he received from the old man Jólfr not long before the Bjálkaland expedition and used to lay Álfr low (or to kill Gyða, according to the version of 7).
stór ‘the huge’
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stórr (adj.): large, great < stórgǫrr (adj.)
gör ‘’
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1. gǫrr (adj.): ample, perfect < stórgǫrr (adj.)
skeyti ‘shafts’
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skeyti (noun n.; °; -): arrow, missile
stinnr ‘the strong’
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stinnr (adj.): stiff, firm
bogi ‘bow’
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bogi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): bow
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
it ‘thing’
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2. inn (art.): the
fimta ‘fifth’
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fimmti (num. ordinal): fifth
er ‘which’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
fregna ‘hear of’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
skalt ‘must’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
við ‘to’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
notes
[7] við ásu ‘to the gods’: The collective name (æsir) of the pre-Christian Norse gods. All mss read ása, but the acc. pl. is needed after við.
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[7] við ásu ‘to the gods’: The collective name (æsir) of the pre-Christian Norse gods. All mss read ása, but the acc. pl. is needed after við.
aldri ‘never’
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aldri (adv.): never
notes
[8] þýddumk aldri ‘I never submitted’: The other mss have different verbs; 343a has blíðkumk ‘I softened’, while 471 and 173ˣ have líkjumk ‘I resembled, was like’, the latter not providing a good fit as far as sense is concerned.
notes
[8] þýddumk aldri ‘I never submitted’: The other mss have different verbs; 343a has blíðkumk ‘I softened’, while 471 and 173ˣ have líkjumk ‘I resembled, was like’, the latter not providing a good fit as far as sense is concerned.
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Oddr replies to Gyðja’s questions in the previous stanza.
Ms. 471 is almost illegible in several places for this stanza and the next two (Ǫrv 68 and 69) and some of its readings are uncertain. — [5-8]: As with many of the other stanzas in this dialogue, and the Bjálkaland episode as a whole, especially in the versions younger than 7, Oddr is made out to be strongly opposed to Old Norse paganism. Earlier in the saga (Ǫrv 1888, 9), Oddr has professed himself opposed to pagan sacrifice (blót), preferring to rely on his own powers.
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