ǪrvOdd Ævdr 12VIII (Ǫrv 82)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 82 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 12)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 897.
Réðu ‘’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
Bjarmar ‘The Permians’
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1. bjarmi (noun m.; °; -ar): °Bjarmian, person from Bjarmaland
[1] Bjarmar: borgar menn 471, 173ˣ
brátt ‘soon’
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bráðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): quick(ly)
at ‘’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
verja ‘defended’
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3. verja (verb): defend
haug ‘the mound’
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haugr (noun m.; °-s, -i; -ar): mound, cairn
hermönnum ‘with warriors’
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hermaðr (noun m.): warrior
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hamalt ‘in a wedge-shaped phalanx’
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hamall (adj.): wedge-shaped
fylkja ‘drew [them] up’
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fylkja (verb): marshal
Létum ‘We caused’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
þegna ‘men’
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þegn (noun m.; °dat. -/-i; -ar): thane, man, franklin
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
færim ‘we went’
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færa (verb): [bring]
öndu ‘their lives’
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2. ǫnd (noun f.; °andar, dat. ǫnd/ǫndu; andir): soul, breath
týna ‘to lose’
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týna (verb): lose, destroy
notes
[8] týna ‘to lose’: Skj B emends to pret. inf. týnda without ms. support.
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[4]: On other instances of the phrase fylkja hamalt ‘draw up [an army] in a wedge-shaped phalanx’ see Gísl Magnkv 10/6II and Note there.
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