ǪrvOdd Ævdr 6VIII (Ǫrv 76)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 76 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 892.
Létum ‘We allowed’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
beiti ‘the ship’
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2. beit (noun n.): ship
notes
[1] beiti ‘the ship’: An uncommon variant form of beit ‘ship’ (cf. LP: 2. beiti).
þrauka ‘to roll’
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þrauka (verb): [lumbered]
notes
[2] þrauka ‘roll’: Other meanings include ‘lumber, move heavily with a tugging motion’. This verb is otherwise only found in Anon (TGT) 35/1III, where it is used of horses pulling a heavy bell. It certainly suggests in the present context that the ship was labouring rather than moving forward easily.
stóð ‘tight’
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standa (verb): stand
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[3-4] hörr stóð dreginn fjarri höndum ‘the sail rope was pulled tight far from our hands’: Hörr lit. ‘linen’ may refer either to the sail itself or the rope that secures it (cf. LP: hǫrr 3). Lines 3-4 could be interpreted to mean that the sail carried the men forward without their having to do anything (it was far from their hands), and this could be understood as consistent with the prose narrative. Alternatively, and more likely in the context of the verb þrauka, they might imply that the wind was so fierce that the sail or sail rope was beyond the men’s control.
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[3-4] hörr stóð dreginn fjarri höndum ‘the sail rope was pulled tight far from our hands’: Hörr lit. ‘linen’ may refer either to the sail itself or the rope that secures it (cf. LP: hǫrr 3). Lines 3-4 could be interpreted to mean that the sail carried the men forward without their having to do anything (it was far from their hands), and this could be understood as consistent with the prose narrative. Alternatively, and more likely in the context of the verb þrauka, they might imply that the wind was so fierce that the sail or sail rope was beyond the men’s control.
dreginn ‘was pulled’
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2. draga (verb; °dregr; dró, drógu; dreginn/droget(Hirð NKS 1642 4° 146v²⁹; cf. [$962$])): drag, pull, draw
notes
[3-4] hörr stóð dreginn fjarri höndum ‘the sail rope was pulled tight far from our hands’: Hörr lit. ‘linen’ may refer either to the sail itself or the rope that secures it (cf. LP: hǫrr 3). Lines 3-4 could be interpreted to mean that the sail carried the men forward without their having to do anything (it was far from their hands), and this could be understood as consistent with the prose narrative. Alternatively, and more likely in the context of the verb þrauka, they might imply that the wind was so fierce that the sail or sail rope was beyond the men’s control.
höndum ‘hands’
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hǫnd (noun f.; °handar, dat. hendi; hendr (hendir StatPáll³ 752¹²)): hand
notes
[3-4] hörr stóð dreginn fjarri höndum ‘the sail rope was pulled tight far from our hands’: Hörr lit. ‘linen’ may refer either to the sail itself or the rope that secures it (cf. LP: hǫrr 3). Lines 3-4 could be interpreted to mean that the sail carried the men forward without their having to do anything (it was far from their hands), and this could be understood as consistent with the prose narrative. Alternatively, and more likely in the context of the verb þrauka, they might imply that the wind was so fierce that the sail or sail rope was beyond the men’s control.
fjarri ‘far from’
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fjarri (adv.): far, far from it, unlikely
notes
[3-4] hörr stóð dreginn fjarri höndum ‘the sail rope was pulled tight far from our hands’: Hörr lit. ‘linen’ may refer either to the sail itself or the rope that secures it (cf. LP: hǫrr 3). Lines 3-4 could be interpreted to mean that the sail carried the men forward without their having to do anything (it was far from their hands), and this could be understood as consistent with the prose narrative. Alternatively, and more likely in the context of the verb þrauka, they might imply that the wind was so fierce that the sail or sail rope was beyond the men’s control.
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[5, 6] kómum útan ‘we arrived’: Lit. ‘we came from outside’. It is assumed here that the adv. útan modifies the verb kómum ‘we came’, presumably referring to the ship’s direction of travel from the open sea. The reading of 471 is at eyju útanverðri ‘to an outward/outer island’. The island in question is Hrafnista, now Ramsta, off the coast of the northern Norwegian district of Nord-Trøndelag.
at ‘at’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
eyju ‘island’
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1. ey (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-; -jar): island
útan ‘’
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útan (prep.): outside, without
notes
[5, 6] kómum útan ‘we arrived’: Lit. ‘we came from outside’. It is assumed here that the adv. útan modifies the verb kómum ‘we came’, presumably referring to the ship’s direction of travel from the open sea. The reading of 471 is at eyju útanverðri ‘to an outward/outer island’. The island in question is Hrafnista, now Ramsta, off the coast of the northern Norwegian district of Nord-Trøndelag.
brattri ‘the steep’
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brattr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): steep
[6] brattri: verðri 471
þar ‘where’
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þar (adv.): there
er ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
Grímr ‘Grímr’
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Grímr (noun m.): Grímr
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[7] Grímr: Name of Ǫrvar-Oddr’s father Grímr loðinkinni ‘Hairy-cheek’, himself the subject of a separate saga, GrL.
fyrir ‘’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
garða ‘properties’
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garðr (noun m.): enclosure, yard
átti ‘owned’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
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According to the saga prose (Ǫrv 1888, 18-19) Oddr and Ásmundr have an easy sea journey north to Hrafnista, after Oddr has invoked his ancestor, Ketill hœngr’s, ability to call up a favourable wind to avoid having to row all the way. However, the first helmingr of this stanza may not agree with this information, as it appears to describe how the ship encountered heavy seas (see Notes to ll. 2 and 3-4 below). — [5-6]: These lines are exactly the same as Ǫrv 87/1-2.
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