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.
text and translation
Létum beiti á brim þrauka;
stóð hörr dreginn höndum fjarri.
Kómum at eyju útan brattri,
þar er Grímr fyrir garða átti.
Létum beiti þrauka á brim; hörr stóð dreginn fjarri höndum. Kómum útan at brattri eyju, þar er Grímr átti garða fyrir.
‘We allowed the ship to roll on the sea; the sail rope was pulled tight far from our hands. We arrived at the steep island, where Grímr owned properties. ’
notes and context
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.
readings
- [2] á: um 173ˣ
- [2] brim: so 471, 173ˣ, ‘birne’ 343a
- [3] hörr: barð 173ˣ
- [5] Kómum: ‘k°’ 471
- [6] brattri: verðri 471
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/7 - 80v/8
imagesLétum beiti
á †birne† þrauka;
stóð hörr dreginn
höndum fjarri.
Kómum at eyju
útan brattri,
þar er Grímr fyrir
garða átti.Letum beiti ꜳ birne þrauka · stod | haur dreiginn haunndvm fiari · kuomvm at eyiv vtan brattri · þar er grimr firi garda atti ·
(HA)
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AM 471 4° (471) — 94r - 94r
Létum beiti
images
á brim þrauka;
stóð hörr dreginn
höndum fjarri.
†k°† at eyju
útan verðri,
þar er Grímr fyrir
garða átti. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 61ra/18 - 61ra/25
Létum beiti
images
um brim þrauka;
stóð barð dreginn
höndum fjarri.
Kómum at eyju
útan brattri,
þar er Grímr fyrir
garða átti. -
AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 33r/5 - 33r/6
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