ǪrvOdd Ævdr 16VIII (Ǫrv 86)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 86 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 16)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 900.
skeika ‘go’
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skeika (verb)
at ‘according to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
sköpuðu ‘the will of fate’
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2. skapa (verb): form
drengmenn ‘bold heroes’
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drengmaðr (noun m.; °dat. ·manni, gen. ·manns; ·menn): good man
snarir ‘things’
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snarr (adj.): gallant, bold
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
drifa ‘the storm’
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1. drífa (noun f.; °-u): snow-storm < drifaveðr (noun n.)
[4] drifa‑: drifu‑ 173ˣ
veðri ‘of sea-spray’
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2. veðr (noun n.; °-s; -): weather, wind, storm < drifaveðr (noun n.)
Sýndiz ‘seemed’
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sýna (verb): show, seem
seggjum ‘to the men’
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
sandr ‘sand’
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sandr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sand, beach
[6] sandr var: so 471, sandr 343a, 173ˣ
var ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
[6] sandr var: so 471, sandr 343a, 173ˣ
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
þiljum ‘the decks’
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1. þilja (noun f.; °-u; -ur): planking, decking
lands ‘of land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
ván ‘The hope’
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ván (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): hope, expectation
lá ‘lie’
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liggja (verb): lie
notes
[8] ek lá eigi þar ‘I did not lie there’: The meaning of this statement is not clear, but may relate to the condition of the ship with its decks covered in sand, suggesting that it was wrecked and lay on the seabed (LP: sandr), but that Oddr escaped drowning (‘I did not lie there’). Alternatively the verb liggja might here mean ‘lie at anchor, stay’ (Fritzner: liggja 5) rather than ‘lie down, rest’, in which case l. 8 could be understood as an ironic comment indicating that the sea was so rough that Oddr had no intention of staying there.
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
notes
[8] ek lá eigi þar ‘I did not lie there’: The meaning of this statement is not clear, but may relate to the condition of the ship with its decks covered in sand, suggesting that it was wrecked and lay on the seabed (LP: sandr), but that Oddr escaped drowning (‘I did not lie there’). Alternatively the verb liggja might here mean ‘lie at anchor, stay’ (Fritzner: liggja 5) rather than ‘lie down, rest’, in which case l. 8 could be understood as an ironic comment indicating that the sea was so rough that Oddr had no intention of staying there.
eigi ‘did not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
notes
[8] ek lá eigi þar ‘I did not lie there’: The meaning of this statement is not clear, but may relate to the condition of the ship with its decks covered in sand, suggesting that it was wrecked and lay on the seabed (LP: sandr), but that Oddr escaped drowning (‘I did not lie there’). Alternatively the verb liggja might here mean ‘lie at anchor, stay’ (Fritzner: liggja 5) rather than ‘lie down, rest’, in which case l. 8 could be understood as an ironic comment indicating that the sea was so rough that Oddr had no intention of staying there.
notes
[8] ek lá eigi þar ‘I did not lie there’: The meaning of this statement is not clear, but may relate to the condition of the ship with its decks covered in sand, suggesting that it was wrecked and lay on the seabed (LP: sandr), but that Oddr escaped drowning (‘I did not lie there’). Alternatively the verb liggja might here mean ‘lie at anchor, stay’ (Fritzner: liggja 5) rather than ‘lie down, rest’, in which case l. 8 could be understood as an ironic comment indicating that the sea was so rough that Oddr had no intention of staying there.
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According to the saga prose (Ǫrv 1888, 36-9), after they have left Bjarmaland, Oddr and his companions travel back along the coast of Finnmǫrk (Finnmark), where they encounter fierce storms. The sea is so rough that they expect their ships to be broken up. Oddr advises Guðmundr to throw overboard all the loot they had taken from the Saami on the way up the coast (cf. Ǫrv 79 and Note to [All]), the implication being that they are being punished for their theft. They do this, whereupon the sea subsides and they are eventually blown up on the shore.
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