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 léz Ásmundr opt meðan lifði,
málmþings vanr, mér at fylgja.
Sagða ek karli, at ek koma mundak
aptr aldrigi; nú em ek orðrofi.
Ásmundr, vanr {málmþings}, léz opt búinn at fylgja mér meðan lifði. Ek sagða karli, at ek mundak aldrigi aptr koma; nú em ek orðrofi.
Ásmundr, accustomed {to the weapon-meeting} [BATTLE], often said he was prepared to follow me as long as he lived. I told the old man that I would never come back; now I have broken my word.
Mss: 343a(80v), 471(94r), 173ˣ(61ra) (Ǫrv)
Readings: [6] mundak: mundi 471 [8] orðrofi: so 471, orðrofa 343a, eiðrofa 173ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 307, Skj BII, 325, Skald II, 174; Ǫrv 1888, 198, FSGJ 2, 341-2.
Notes: [3]: This line is hypometrical, but could be made regular if vanr ‘accustomed’ were desyllabified to vanur. — [5] karli ‘the old man’: A slightly derogatory reference to Oddr’s foster-father Ingjaldr. — [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.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
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