Sjólfr Lv 3VIII (Ǫrv 42)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 42 (Sjólfr, Lausavísur 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 855.
Oddr, vartu eigi á Atalsfjalli,
þá er fenloga fengit höfðum.
Vér berserki binda knáttum;
þá var af kappi konungs lið drepit.
Oddr, vartu eigi á Atalsfjalli, þá er höfðum fengit {fenloga}. Vér knáttum binda berserki; þá var lið konungs drepit af kappi.
Oddr, you were not on Atalsfjall when we had obtained {fen-flame} [GOLD]. We bound berserks; then the king’s retinue was killed with ardour.
Mss: 7(54v), 344a(21v), 343a(77r), 471(88v) (Ǫrv)
Readings: [1] eigi: so all others, ei 7 [2] á: á á 343a; Atals‑: ‘atans’ corrected from ‘a[…]’ 343a, ‘atans’ 471 [3] ‑loga: ‘lo᷎gu’ 471 [5] ber‑: bes‑ 344a, 343a [6] binda: brytja 344a; knáttum: ‘knadumi’ 344a, gerðum 343a [7] kappi: ‘kꜹpumm’ 344a [8] lið: sonr 344a; drepit: drepinn 344a
Editions: Skj AII, 299, Skj BII, 318, Skald II, 170; Ǫrv 1888, 161, Ǫrv 1892, 80, FSGJ 2, 314; Edd. Min. 67.
Context: Oddr returns to his seat and his two rivals drain the horns he had offered them. They then bring two horns to Oddr and Sjólfr speaks this stanza.
Notes: [All]: The incident referred to in this stanza is unknown. — [2] á Atalsfjalli ‘on Atalsfjall’: This p. n. is unknown. Atall (lit. ‘fierce one’) is the name of a sea-king in Þul Sækonunga 1/6III and functions as the determinant in a ship-kenning (Glúmr Gráf 12/4I).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
- Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
- Ǫrv 1892 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1892a. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Altnordische Saga-Bibliothek 2. Halle: Niemayer.
- Internal references
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sækonunga heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 678.
- Alison Finlay (ed.) 2012, ‘Glúmr Geirason, Gráfeldardrápa 12’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 262.
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