Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 74 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 891.
Sagði mér völva sannar rúnir,
en ek vætki því vildak hlýða.
Gat ek fyr ungum Ingjalds syni,
at ek föðurtúna fýstumk vitja.
Völva sagði mér sannar rúnir, en ek vildak vætki hlýða því. Ek gat fyr {ungum syni Ingjalds}, at ek fýstumk vitja föðurtúna.
‘The prophetess told me true secrets, but I wanted to heed nothing of it. I mentioned to the young son of Ingjaldr [= Ásmundr] that I was keen to visit my father’s homestead. ’
[1-4]: See Heiðr Lv 1-3 (Ǫrv 1-3) and Introduction and Notes to those stanzas. — [5-8]: According to the saga (Ǫrv 1888, 17-19), Oddr leaves Berurjóðr out of spite because Ingjaldr has insisted on inviting the prophetess to his farm even though he knew Oddr was against it. He takes Ásmundr with him to visit his family at Hrafnista.
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.
Sagði mér völva
sannar rúnir,
en ek vætki því
vildi ek hlyða .
Gat ek fyr ungum
Ingjalds syni,
at ek föðurtúna
fýstumk vita.
Sagdi mier uolua sannar ʀunir · enn ec vætki þvi villdi ec hly | da · gat ec firi vungum jngiallz syni at ec faudr tuna · fystuzt vita ·
(HA)
Sagði mér völva
sannar †rrunar†,
en ek vætki því
vildi hlýða .
Gat ek fyr ungum
†jngialldsyne† ,
at ek föðurtúna
fýstumk vitja.
Sagði mér völva
sannar rúnir,
en ek eigi því
vildi hlýðak .
Gat ek fyr ungum
Ingjalds syni,
at ek föðurtúna
fýstumk vitja.
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