Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 89 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 19)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 902.
Kóðuz fjallbúar flytja mundu
oss ór eyju, nema út* færim.
Þótti ei rekkum rómr at heyra
hagligr, sá er var hraunskjöldunga.
{Fjallbúar} kóðuz mundu flytja oss ór eyju, nema færim út*. Rómr, sá er var {hraunskjöldunga}, þótti ei rekkum hagligr at heyra.
‘The mountain dwellers [GIANTS] said they would move us off the island, unless we went away. The voice that belonged to the rock-princes [GIANTS] did not seem to the men pleasant to hear. ’
There is no close correspondence between this stanza and the prose saga, aside from the common theme of the general hostility between the giants and Oddr’s party during the latter’s stay on the unnamed island.
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.
Kóðuz fjallbúar
flytja mundu
oss ór eyju,
nema útan færim.
Þótti eigi rekkum
rómr at heyra
hagligr, sá er var
hraunskjöldunga.
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Kóðuz fjallbúar
flytja mundu
oss ór eyju,
nema útan færim.
Þótti eigi rekkum
rómr at heyra
hógligr, sá er var
hraunskjöldunga.
Kóðuz fjallbúar
flytja mundu
oss ór eyju,
nema útan færim.
Þótti ei rekkum
rómu at heyja
hagligr, sá er var
hraun-skjöldungar.
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