''Oddrúnargrátr'' (''Oddrún's

lament A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something ...

'') or ''Oddrúnarkviða'' (''Oddrún's poem'') is an Eddic poem, found in the

Codex Regius Codex Regius (, "Royal Book" or "King's Book"; ) or GKS 2365 4º is an Icelandic codex in which many Old Norse poems from the ''Poetic Edda'' are preserved. Thought to have been written during the 1270s, it is made up of 45 vellum Vellum ...

manuscript where it follows '' Guðrúnarkviða III'' and precedes '' Atlakviða''. The main content of the poem is the lament of Oddrún, sister of Atli, for Gunnarr, her lost and forbidden love. The poem is well preserved and thought to be a relatively late composition, perhaps from the 11th century. The metre is ''

fornyrðislag Old Norse poetry encompasses a range of verse forms written in the Old Norse language, during the period from the 8th century to as late as the far end of the 13th century. Old Norse poetry is associated with the area now referred to as Scandinav ...

''.

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Oddrunargratr
Translation and commentary by Henry A. Bellows
Oddrún’s Lament
Translation by

Benjamin Thorpe Benjamin Thorpe (1782 – 19 July 1870) was an English scholar of Old English language, Anglo-Saxon literature. Biography In the early 1820s he worked as a banker in the House of Rothschild, in Paris. There he met Thomas Hodgkin, who treated hi ...

Oddrúnargrátr
Translation by

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditiona ...

and Eirikr Magnusson
Oddrúnargrátr
Sophus Bugge's edition of the manuscript text
Oddrúnarkviða
Guðni Jónsson's edition of the text with normalized spelling {{DEFAULTSORT:Oddrunargratr 11th-century poems Eddic poetry Nibelung tradition