ǪrvOdd Ævdr 17VIII (Ǫrv 87)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 87 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 17)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 901.
Kómum at eyju útan brattri
sumar síðla; þá var segl rifat.
Gerðu fyrðar flestir allir
skipum til hlunns skjótt at ráða.
Kómum síðla sumar útan at brattri eyju; þá var segl rifat. Flestir allir fyrðar gerðu skjótt at ráða skipum til hlunns.
We arrived late in the summer at the steep island; then the sail was reefed. Almost all the men quickly set about pulling up the ships onto rollers.
Mss: 343a(80v), 471(94v), 173ˣ(61vb) (Ǫrv)
Readings: [3] sumar: sumars 173ˣ [4] rifat: rifit 173ˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 309, Skj BII, 327, Skald II, 175; Ǫrv 1888, 200, FSGJ 2, 345.
Notes: [1-2]: These lines are exactly the same as Ǫrv 76/5-6, where the island concerned is Grímr loðinkinni’s home of Hrafnista. No name is given in the prose text to the island where Oddr and his companions make land after their adventures among the Saami and Permians, although in 7 Oddr is reported as saying (Ǫrv 1888, 39) that it must be in Giantland (Risaland).
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.
- Ǫrv 1888 = Boer, R. C., ed. 1888. Ǫrvar-Odds saga. Leiden: Brill.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite (GrímlVIII)
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Ǫrvar-Odds saga 76 (Ǫrvar-Oddr, Ævidrápa 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 892.
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