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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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ǪrvOdd Ævdr 17VIII (Ǫrv 87)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 87 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 17)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 901.

Ǫrvar-OddrÆvidrápa
161718

text and translation

Kómum at eyju         útan brattri
sumar síðla;         þá var segl rifat.
Gerðu fyrðar         flestir allir
skipum til hlunns         skjótt at ráða.

Kómum síðla sumar útan at brattri eyju; þá var segl rifat. Flestir allir fyrðar gerðu skjótt at ráða skipum til hlunns.
 
‘We arrived late in the summer at the steep island; then the sail was reefed. Almost all the men quickly set about pulling up the ships onto rollers.

notes and context

[1-2]: These lines are exactly the same as Ǫrv 76/5-6, where the island concerned is Grímr loðinkinni’s home of Hrafnista. No name is given in the prose text to the island where Oddr and his companions make land after their adventures among the Saami and Permians, although in 7 Oddr is reported as saying (Ǫrv 1888, 39) that it must be in Giantland (Risaland).

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 10. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Ǫrvar-Oddssaga IX 17: AII, 309, BII, 327, Skald II, 175; Ǫrv 1888, 200, FSGJ 2, 345.

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