ǪrvOdd Ævdr 25VIII (Ǫrv 95)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 95 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 25)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 907.
Sigldum ‘We sailed’
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2. sigla (verb): sail
síðan ‘then’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
suðr ‘south’
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2. suðr (adv.): south, in the south
með ‘along’
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með (prep.): with
landi ‘the coast’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
tállaust ‘without deceit’
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tállauss (adj.): [without deceit]
[3] tállaust: ‘taflaust’ 173ˣ
notes
[3] tállaust ‘without deceit’: Both 343a and 471 have this reading. The first element of this adv. is tál ‘deceit, allurement’, and the normal meaning of the adv. is ‘without deceit, guilelessly’. It is probably largely emphatic here and may simply mean ‘for sure, certainly’; cf. NN §88. Finnur Jónsson emends to tálaust, which he translates in Skj B as uden hindring ‘without impediment’, but in LP he suggests a derivation from tálauss ‘doubtless, sure’, suggesting the first element is tá- ‘two’ (cf. LP: tálauss). Other occurrences of tállaust ‘without deceit’ are Anon Nkt 34/1II and Sturl Hákkv 4/1II.
skipum ‘ships’
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skip (noun n.; °-s; -): ship
notes
[3-4] tveimr ok einu skipum ‘with three ships’: Lit. ‘with two and one ships’. This corresponds to the prose text of 7 and 344a, but not that of 343a and 471, which mention four ships.
notes
[3-4] tveimr ok einu skipum ‘with three ships’: Lit. ‘with two and one ships’. This corresponds to the prose text of 7 and 344a, but not that of 343a and 471, which mention four ships.
ok ‘’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
notes
[3-4] tveimr ok einu skipum ‘with three ships’: Lit. ‘with two and one ships’. This corresponds to the prose text of 7 and 344a, but not that of 343a and 471, which mention four ships.
einu ‘’
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1. einn (num. cardinal; °f. ein, n. eitt; pl. einir; superl. debil. -asti(Anna238(2001) 155³²)): one; alone
notes
[3-4] tveimr ok einu skipum ‘with three ships’: Lit. ‘with two and one ships’. This corresponds to the prose text of 7 and 344a, but not that of 343a and 471, which mention four ships.
notes
[5-6]: These lines are unsatisfactory in some respect in all mss. This edn adopts 173ˣ’s væntu ‘they hoped for’, instead of 343a’s and 471’s væntum ‘we hoped for’ and then 471’s reading of l. 6. Ms. 343a’s reading of l. 6, þar er váru fyrir ‘where there was [were] any to be found’, adopted by Skj B, requires the pl. verb váru ‘were’ to be understood to refer back to fengjar ‘booty’ (l. 5), which is gen. sg. It is possible that the line in 343a has been corrupted by a scribe anticipating the similar l. 6 in the following stanza. Kock produces the lines væntu fengjar, | þeir’s fyrir váru ‘they who were at hand, hoped for booty’, which do not occur in any single ms., while Ǫrv 1888 has væntum fengjar, | [þar] er fyrir vissum ‘we hoped for booty, where we knew beforehand’, again not found in any ms.
fengjar ‘booty’
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fengr (noun m.; °-jar/-s, dat. -/-i): loot
notes
[5-6]: These lines are unsatisfactory in some respect in all mss. This edn adopts 173ˣ’s væntu ‘they hoped for’, instead of 343a’s and 471’s væntum ‘we hoped for’ and then 471’s reading of l. 6. Ms. 343a’s reading of l. 6, þar er váru fyrir ‘where there was [were] any to be found’, adopted by Skj B, requires the pl. verb váru ‘were’ to be understood to refer back to fengjar ‘booty’ (l. 5), which is gen. sg. It is possible that the line in 343a has been corrupted by a scribe anticipating the similar l. 6 in the following stanza. Kock produces the lines væntu fengjar, | þeir’s fyrir váru ‘they who were at hand, hoped for booty’, which do not occur in any single ms., while Ǫrv 1888 has væntum fengjar, | [þar] er fyrir vissum ‘we hoped for booty, where we knew beforehand’, again not found in any ms.
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: so 471, þar 343a, þat 173ˣ
notes
[5-6]: These lines are unsatisfactory in some respect in all mss. This edn adopts 173ˣ’s væntu ‘they hoped for’, instead of 343a’s and 471’s væntum ‘we hoped for’ and then 471’s reading of l. 6. Ms. 343a’s reading of l. 6, þar er váru fyrir ‘where there was [were] any to be found’, adopted by Skj B, requires the pl. verb váru ‘were’ to be understood to refer back to fengjar ‘booty’ (l. 5), which is gen. sg. It is possible that the line in 343a has been corrupted by a scribe anticipating the similar l. 6 in the following stanza. Kock produces the lines væntu fengjar, | þeir’s fyrir váru ‘they who were at hand, hoped for booty’, which do not occur in any single ms., while Ǫrv 1888 has væntum fengjar, | [þar] er fyrir vissum ‘we hoped for booty, where we knew beforehand’, again not found in any ms.
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
notes
[5-6]: These lines are unsatisfactory in some respect in all mss. This edn adopts 173ˣ’s væntu ‘they hoped for’, instead of 343a’s and 471’s væntum ‘we hoped for’ and then 471’s reading of l. 6. Ms. 343a’s reading of l. 6, þar er váru fyrir ‘where there was [were] any to be found’, adopted by Skj B, requires the pl. verb váru ‘were’ to be understood to refer back to fengjar ‘booty’ (l. 5), which is gen. sg. It is possible that the line in 343a has been corrupted by a scribe anticipating the similar l. 6 in the following stanza. Kock produces the lines væntu fengjar, | þeir’s fyrir váru ‘they who were at hand, hoped for booty’, which do not occur in any single ms., while Ǫrv 1888 has væntum fengjar, | [þar] er fyrir vissum ‘we hoped for booty, where we knew beforehand’, again not found in any ms.
fyrir ‘beforehand’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
notes
[5-6]: These lines are unsatisfactory in some respect in all mss. This edn adopts 173ˣ’s væntu ‘they hoped for’, instead of 343a’s and 471’s væntum ‘we hoped for’ and then 471’s reading of l. 6. Ms. 343a’s reading of l. 6, þar er váru fyrir ‘where there was [were] any to be found’, adopted by Skj B, requires the pl. verb váru ‘were’ to be understood to refer back to fengjar ‘booty’ (l. 5), which is gen. sg. It is possible that the line in 343a has been corrupted by a scribe anticipating the similar l. 6 in the following stanza. Kock produces the lines væntu fengjar, | þeir’s fyrir váru ‘they who were at hand, hoped for booty’, which do not occur in any single ms., while Ǫrv 1888 has væntum fengjar, | [þar] er fyrir vissum ‘we hoped for booty, where we knew beforehand’, again not found in any ms.
notes
[5-6]: These lines are unsatisfactory in some respect in all mss. This edn adopts 173ˣ’s væntu ‘they hoped for’, instead of 343a’s and 471’s væntum ‘we hoped for’ and then 471’s reading of l. 6. Ms. 343a’s reading of l. 6, þar er váru fyrir ‘where there was [were] any to be found’, adopted by Skj B, requires the pl. verb váru ‘were’ to be understood to refer back to fengjar ‘booty’ (l. 5), which is gen. sg. It is possible that the line in 343a has been corrupted by a scribe anticipating the similar l. 6 in the following stanza. Kock produces the lines væntu fengjar, | þeir’s fyrir váru ‘they who were at hand, hoped for booty’, which do not occur in any single ms., while Ǫrv 1888 has væntum fengjar, | [þar] er fyrir vissum ‘we hoped for booty, where we knew beforehand’, again not found in any ms.
ef ‘if’
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3. ef (conj.): if
[7] ef vér Elfarsker: skjótt ef Elfarsker 471, ok Elfarsker 173ˣ
notes
[7, 8] ef vér kannaðim ‘if we explored’: All mss have the 1st pers. pl. pret. indic. here, but all eds have restored the pret. subj. after ef ‘if’.
vér ‘we’
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vér (pron.; °gen. vár, dat./acc. oss): we, us, our
[7] ef vér Elfarsker: skjótt ef Elfarsker 471, ok Elfarsker 173ˣ
notes
[7, 8] ef vér kannaðim ‘if we explored’: All mss have the 1st pers. pl. pret. indic. here, but all eds have restored the pret. subj. after ef ‘if’.
Elfarsker ‘the Götaälv skerries’
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Elfarsker (noun n.)
[7] ef vér Elfarsker: skjótt ef Elfarsker 471, ok Elfarsker 173ˣ
kannaðim ‘explored’
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3. kanna (verb): know, be able
[8] kannaðim: könnuðum 343a, 471, könnuðu 173ˣ
notes
[7, 8] ef vér kannaðim ‘if we explored’: All mss have the 1st pers. pl. pret. indic. here, but all eds have restored the pret. subj. after ef ‘if’.
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