ǪrvOdd Ævdr 5VIII (Ǫrv 75)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 75 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 5)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 891.
Búinn ‘he was prepared’
léz ‘said’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
Ásmundr ‘Ásmundr’
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ásmundr (noun m.; °; -ar): Ásmundr
opt ‘often’
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opt (adv.): often
meðan ‘as long’
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meðan (conj.): while
lifði ‘as he lived’
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lifa (verb): live
málm ‘to the weapon’
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malmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): metal < malmþing (noun n.): weapon-assembly
kennings
málmþings,‘to the weapon-meeting, ’
= BATTLE
to the weapon-meeting, → BATTLE
þings ‘meeting’
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þing (noun n.; °-s; -): meeting, assembly < malmþing (noun n.): weapon-assembly
kennings
málmþings,‘to the weapon-meeting, ’
= BATTLE
to the weapon-meeting, → BATTLE
vanr ‘accustomed’
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3. vanr (adj.): accustomed
mér ‘me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
fylgja ‘follow’
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2. fylgja (verb): follow, accompany
Sagða ‘told’
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segja (verb): say, tell
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
karli ‘the old man’
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karl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): (old) man
notes
[5] karli ‘the old man’: A slightly derogatory reference to Oddr’s foster-father Ingjaldr.
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
koma ‘come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
aptr ‘back’
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aptr (adv.; °compar. -ar): back
aldrigi ‘never’
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aldrigi (adv.): never
nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
notes
[8] nú em ek orðrofi ‘now have I broken my word’: Lit. ‘now I am a word-breaker’. Oddr speaks this with the wisdom of hindsight; he has returned to Berurjóðr although as a young man he swore never to do so, in order to frustrate the sibyl’s prophecy that he would meet his death there. Orðrofi is a hap. leg., while 173ˣ’s eiðrofi ‘oath-breaker’ occurs in GunnLeif Merl II 18/3, as well as in two eddic locations, Brot 16/12 and Helr 5/8.
em ‘have’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
notes
[8] nú em ek orðrofi ‘now have I broken my word’: Lit. ‘now I am a word-breaker’. Oddr speaks this with the wisdom of hindsight; he has returned to Berurjóðr although as a young man he swore never to do so, in order to frustrate the sibyl’s prophecy that he would meet his death there. Orðrofi is a hap. leg., while 173ˣ’s eiðrofi ‘oath-breaker’ occurs in GunnLeif Merl II 18/3, as well as in two eddic locations, Brot 16/12 and Helr 5/8.
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[8] nú em ek orðrofi ‘now have I broken my word’: Lit. ‘now I am a word-breaker’. Oddr speaks this with the wisdom of hindsight; he has returned to Berurjóðr although as a young man he swore never to do so, in order to frustrate the sibyl’s prophecy that he would meet his death there. Orðrofi is a hap. leg., while 173ˣ’s eiðrofi ‘oath-breaker’ occurs in GunnLeif Merl II 18/3, as well as in two eddic locations, Brot 16/12 and Helr 5/8.
orðrofi ‘broken my word’
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orðrofi (noun m.)
[8] orðrofi: so 471, orðrofa 343a, eiðrofa 173ˣ
notes
[8] nú em ek orðrofi ‘now have I broken my word’: Lit. ‘now I am a word-breaker’. Oddr speaks this with the wisdom of hindsight; he has returned to Berurjóðr although as a young man he swore never to do so, in order to frustrate the sibyl’s prophecy that he would meet his death there. Orðrofi is a hap. leg., while 173ˣ’s eiðrofi ‘oath-breaker’ occurs in GunnLeif Merl II 18/3, as well as in two eddic locations, Brot 16/12 and Helr 5/8.
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[3]: This line is hypometrical, but could be made regular if vanr ‘accustomed’ were desyllabified to vanur.
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