ǪrvOdd Ævdr 2VIII (Ǫrv 72)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 72 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 889.
text and translation
Var mér fóstr gefit at föður ráði
— brátt vöndumk því — á Berurjóðri.
Var mér ekki vant til sælu,
þess er Ingjaldr átti kosti.
Fóstr var gefit mér at ráði föður á Berurjóðri; vöndumk því brátt. Var mér ekki vant til sælu, þess er Ingjaldr átti kosti.
‘Fosterage was provided for me according to my father’s advice at Berurjóðr; we [I] quickly came to like it. I had no lack of enjoyment of that which Ingjaldr had at his disposal. ’
notes and context
The stanza refers to Oddr’s childhood. According to the saga (Ǫrv 1888, 2-9), Oddr’s parents, Grímr and Lopthœna, were travelling by boat from their farm at Hrafnista in Northern Norway to take care of her recently deceased father’s property in the Vík (Viken) area of Oslofjorden. She was heavily pregnant at the time, and gave birth to Oddr on the journey south at Ingjaldr’s farm at Berurjóðr. Ingjaldr offered to foster Oddr and his parents accepted that offer. Although this is not stated in the saga, there is an assumption that Ingjaldr was of lower social status than Grímr and Lopthœna, as in most recorded cases of fosterage in early Iceland and Norway (Foote and Wilson 1980, 116; Byock 1988, 171-2).
readings
- [1] gefit: tekit 471, 173ˣ
- [3] vöndumk: so 471, 173ˣ, vönduz 343a
- [5] Var mér ekki: varat mér sælu 173ˣ
- [6] sælu: þeirrar 173ˣ
- [7] þess er: sem at 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 343 a 4° (343a) — 80v/1 - 80v/2
imagesVar mér fóstr gefit
at föður ráði
— brátt vönduz því —
á Berurjóðri.
Var mér ekki
vant til sælu,
þess er Ingjaldr
átti kosti.Var mier fostr gefit at faudur ʀadi | bratt uonduzt þvi ꜳ beru ʀiodri · var mier ecki vant til sælu · þess er jngialldr atti kosti ·
(HA)
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AM 471 4° (471) — 94r - 94r
Var mér fóstr tekit
images
at föður ráði
— brátt vöndumk því —
á Berurjóðri.
Var mér ekki
vant til sælu,
þess er Ingjaldr
átti kosti. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 60va/31 - 60vb/33
Var mér fóstr tekit
images
at föður ráði
— brátt vöndumk því —
á Berurjóðri.
varat mér sælu
vant til þeirrar,
sem at Ingjaldr
átti kosti. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 63vb/23 - 63vb/27
images -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 32v/27 - 32v/29
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