ǪrvOdd Ævdr 15VIII (Ǫrv 85)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 85 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 15)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 899.
skjótliga ‘quickly’
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skjótliga (adv.): [quickly]
at ‘towards’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
landi ‘land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
skeiðr ‘warships’
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1. skeið (noun f.; °-ar; -r/-ar/-ir): ship
vegligar ‘magnificent’
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vegligr (adj.): magnificent
skrautmenni ‘finely equipped men’
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skrautmenni (noun n.)
[4] ok skrautmenni: skrautligir liðir 173ˣ
Fegnir ‘glad’
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2. feginn (adj.; °compar. fegnari, superl. fegnastr): glad, happy
urðu ‘became’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
þeir ‘They’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[6] þeir er: sem 173ˣ
fyrir ‘there first’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
váru ‘were’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
frændr ‘kinsmen’
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frændi (noun m.): kinsman, male relative
mínir ‘my’
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minn (pron.; °f. mín, n. mitt): my
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The fire, mentioned in the previous stanza, has attracted the attention of Oddr’s companions out at sea, and they come back to shore, where they all meet up again. — [5-6]: These lines refer to Oddr and Ásmundr and their companions, who were already on the shore. — [7-8]: To obtain a regular line, þá has been taken as part of l. 7 (so Skj B), while Ǫrv 1888 adopts 471’s and 173ˣ’s er and construes it with l. 8. Skald emends þá to tveir (cf. NN §2604A).
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