ǪrvOdd Lv 2VIII (Ǫrv 8)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 8 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Lausavísur 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 819.
text and translation
Þá var mér ótti einu sinni,
er þeir grenjandi gengu af öskum;
tírarlausir váru tólf saman.
Þá var mér ótti einu sinni, er þeir gengu grenjandi af öskum; tírarlausir váru tólf saman.
‘Then there was in me a fear on one occasion when they went bellowing from the longships; the inglorious ones were twelve together. ’
notes and context
In Heiðr, this is the first stanza in the sequence associated with the battle on Samsø. Oddr speaks it after he and Hjálmarr have just returned from the forest to their ships. They see that the berserks have left their ships, after having killed all on board, with their weapons bloody and their swords drawn, but their berserk frenzy has now left them and they are weaker than normal.
This stanza is extant in a shorter version in two Heiðr mss, 2845 and R715ˣ, and in a longer version in the mss of Ǫrv, the text of which, based on 344a, is given below. The lines following the first helmingr in the Ǫrv version seem to represent a text similar to Ǫrv 6. The Heiðr stanza has only two lines additional to the first helmingr. Previous eds have handled the variant texts in different ways. Boer (Ǫrv 1888 and 1892) prints the text of the Ǫrv version, though with square brackets around ll. 5-10 to indicate that they are likely to be a later addition, and with round brackets enclosing ll. 5-6 to suggest that they repeat Ǫrv 6/1-4 with minor variation. Edd. Min. presents ll. 1-6 as it is in 344a, but then adds two further lines following the mss of Heiðr (ll. 5-6, as in the version from 2845 above). Skj A gives the Heiðr version of 2845 in the main text, with the Ǫrv text from l. 5 onward, as in Note to [All] below. In Skj B Finnur adopts the same mixed text as Edd. Min. and encloses the whole stanza in square brackets. He is followed in this by Kock in Skald. — The text of the Ǫrv version of this stanza, based on 344a, is as follows:
Þá var mér ótti einu sinni,
er þeir grenjandi gengu af öskum,
ok emjandi í ey stigu.
Þá frák fyrða fláráðasta
ok ótrauðasta illt at vinna.
Þá var mér otti einu sinni, er þeir gengu grenjandi af öskum, ok stigu emjandi í ey. Frák þá fyrða fláráðasta ok ótrauðasta at vinna illt.
Then there was in me a fear on one occasion when they went bellowing from the longships, and, raging, climbed the island; I have heard them to be the most treacherous of men and most keen to accomplish evil.
Mss: 344a(16v), 343a(68r), 471(74r), 173ˣ(35v) (Ǫrv).
Readings: [1] Þá var mér otti: nú er otti 343a, 471, 173ˣ [3] er: ef 343a [4] gengu: ganga 343a, 471, 173ˣ [6] í ey stigu: ‘i einstigu’ 173ˣ [9] ótrauðasta: örvasta 343a, 471, 173ˣ.
readings
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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GKS 2845 4° (2845) — 63r/13 - 63r/14
imagesþa uar mer otti eiɴu siɴi | er þeir greniandi gengu af ꜹskum tirar lꜹsir uaro xij saman
(HA)
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UppsUB R 715x (R715x) — 9r/24 - 9r/26
Þá mjök var mér ótti
images
einu sinni,
er þeir gengu
útan at öskum;
tírarlausir
eru tólf saman. -
AM 173 folx (173x) — 35v/18 - 35v/27
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AM 343 a 4° (343a) — 68r/1 - 68r/3
images -
AM 344 a 4° (344a) — 16v/24 - 16v/26
imagesþa uar mer otti. einu sinni. er | þeir greniandi. gengu af oskum. ok emiandi i ey stigu. þa fra ek fyrda. | flaradazta. ok otraudazta. illt at uinna.
(HA)
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AM 344 b 4°x (344bx) — 14r/15 - 14r/17
editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga III 4: AII, 291, BII, 311-12, Skald II, 165; Heiðr 1924, 9, 97, Heiðr 1960, 5, Ǫrv 1888, 98, Ǫrv 1892, 53, FSGJ 2, 253; Edd. Min. 56.
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