ǪrvOdd Ævdr 20VIII (Ǫrv 90)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 90 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 20)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 903.
Uggðum ‘afraid’
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ugga (verb): to fear, suspect
[1] Uggðum: so 471, ‘Augdum’ 343a, ugðu 173ˣ
ekki ‘We were not’
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2. ekki (adv.): not
sízt ‘after’
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sízt (conj.): [since]
eyjar ‘the island’
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1. ey (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-; -jar): island
vápns ‘of the weapon’
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vápn (noun n.; °-s; -): weapon
kennings
vígligir viðir vápns‘warlike trees of the weapon ’
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warlike trees of the weapon → WARRIORS
vígligir ‘warlike’
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vígligr (adj.): warlike
kennings
vígligir viðir vápns‘warlike trees of the weapon ’
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warlike trees of the weapon → WARRIORS
viðir ‘trees’
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1. viðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -u/-i): wood, tree
[4] viðir: er viðir 173ˣ
kennings
vígligir viðir vápns‘warlike trees of the weapon ’
= WARRIORS
warlike trees of the weapon → WARRIORS
kómu ‘came’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
Hlóðu ‘piled’
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2. hlaða (verb): heap, pile
bragnar ‘men’
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bragnar (noun m.): men, warriors
fyr ‘in front’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
bjarg ‘of the cliff’
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bjarg (noun n.; °-s; *-): mountain, cliff
framan ‘up’
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framan (adv.): in front of
vegg ‘wall’
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1. veggr (noun m.; °-jar/-s(Páll²A 257³³), dat. -/-i(kun defin.); -ir): wall
sterkligan ‘a strong’
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sterkligr (adj.): strong
var ‘’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
ek ‘I’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
at ‘took’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
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As with the previous stanza, there is no close correspondence with the prose saga. There the giants, who are Oddr’s party’s opponents at this point, mass on a headland opposite the island and no mention is made of building a defensive wall in front of a cliff on the island.
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