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Gyðja Lv 6VIII (Ǫrv 70)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 70 (Gyðja, Lausavísur 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 885.

GyðjaLausavísur
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Hjálpi ‘help’

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1. hjalpa (verb): help

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

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ásynjur ‘goddesses’

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Ásynja (noun f.; °; -ur): goddess

[2] ásynjur: so all others, ‘osynior’ 344a

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görvöll ‘all divine’

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gǫrvallr (adj.): everything

[3, 4] görvöll regin gyðju sinni: so all others, ‘g. r. g. s.’ 344a

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regin ‘powers’

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regin (noun n.): divine power

[3, 4] görvöll regin gyðju sinni: so all others, ‘g. r. g. s.’ 344a

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gyðju ‘priestess’

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gyðja (noun f.): goddess, priestess

[3, 4] görvöll regin gyðju sinni: so all others, ‘g. r. g. s.’ 344a

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sinni ‘their’

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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)

[3, 4] görvöll regin gyðju sinni: so all others, ‘g. r. g. s.’ 344a

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After Oddr has spoken st. 69, he goes after the priestess with a huge oak club, but she escapes into a temple (hof) that stands in the town. She runs inside, uttering this helmingr.

This helmingr functions as a kind of refrain (stef). It also occurs as Ǫrv 61/5-8; see Note to [All] to that stanza.

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