ǪrvOdd Ævdr 59^VIII (Ǫrv 129)

Unz mik Hildir         hafði á burtu,
rísi ramligr         á róðraskútu.
Lét mik veitir         Vimrar elda
tólf mánaði         hjá sér hvílaz.

Unz Hildir hafði mik á burtu, ramligr rísi á róðraskútu. {Veitir {elda Vimrar}} lét mik hvílaz hjá sér tólf mánaði.

Until Hildir took me away, the strong giant in his rowing boat. {The granter {of the fires of Vimur <mythical river>}} [GOLD > GENEROUS MAN] allowed me to stay with him for twelve months.

Mss: 343a(81r), 471(95v), 173ˣ(64rb-va) (Ǫrv)

Readings: [2] á burtu: burtu 471    [6] Vimrar: ‘vimra’ 343a, 173ˣ, Rínar 471;    elda: eldi 471    [8] hjá: með 471

Editions: Skj AII, 316-17, Skj BII, 336, Skald II, 180; Ǫrv 1888, 206, FSGJ 2, 358.

Notes: [All]: Oddr, imprisoned in the vulture’s nest as fodder for its young, is rescued by a giant, Hildir, rowing a stone boat (steinnǫkkvi), who has come in search of the fresh, cooked meat the vulture has been stealing from him for some time (Ǫrv 1888, 120-1). The giant rescues Oddr, whom he regards as an intelligent child, on account of his small size but good advice, and takes him home for his daughter, Hildigunnr, to have as a plaything; see the following stanza and Ǫrv 30. — [6] Vimrar ‘of Vimur <mythical river>’: Vimur is the name of a mythical river, which the god Þórr had to cross on his way to the abode of the giant Geirrøðr (cf. SnE 1998, I, 17, 24-5). The text must be emended here to give a gen. sg. of this f. noun; 471’s Rínar ‘of the Rhine’ does not alliterate and is a lectio facilior. The river-name forms the determinant of a regular gold-kenning.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
3. SnE 1998 = Snorri Sturluson. 1998. Edda: Skáldskaparmál. Ed. Anthony Faulkes. 2 vols. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
4. FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
5. Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
6. Internal references
7. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 30 (Hildigunnr, Lausavísa 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 843.