ǪrvOdd Lv 30VIII (Ǫrv 67)/2 — smíði ‘handiwork’
Efldu mik örvar ok Jólfs smíði,
stórgör skeyti ok stinnr bogi,
ok þat it fimta, er þú fregna skalt,
at ek við ásu aldri þýddumk.
Örvar ok smíði Jólfs efldu mik, stórgör skeyti ok stinnr bogi, ok þat it fimta, er þú skalt fregna, at ek þýddumk aldri við ásu.
The arrows and Jólfr’s handiwork aided me, the huge shafts and the strong bow, and the fifth thing which you must hear of, that I never submitted to the gods.
notes
[1-2] örvar ok smíði Jólfs ‘the arrows and Jólfr’s handiwork’: Presumably Oddr refers here both to the Gusisnautar, the three magical arrows which his ancestor Ketill hœngr obtained from the Saami king Gusir and which, according to Ǫrv, Oddr’s father Grímr gave to him (Ǫrv 1888, 24-5), and to the three stone arrows that he received from the old man Jólfr not long before the Bjálkaland expedition and used to lay Álfr low (or to kill Gyða, according to the version of 7).