@Bookworm Hoping for a second Gareth answer to this one, analysing the accent and what it's meant to portray, like he did for Aphrodite's wool worker before.

I'm not confident enough to be sure exactly what sort of accent it's supposed to be, and I don't know the Iliad well enough to know what sort of character Poseidon is disguised as (beyond "gaffer" as said in the OP's quote).

Tsundoku's answer is good and solves the main question of "what does this mean", but I think the answer to the subquestion "why is this translated in such an incomprehensible manner" will be perhaps even more interesting, perhaps more character-analysis than meaning.

"Goats are like mushrooms. If you shoot a duck, I'm scared of toasters." Attributed (falsely and ironically) to Bill Murray.

"somewhere in middle-earth the hobbits are reading a series of books set in our world about a gang of misfits on a journey and at the beginning there's a cute map of some shitty place like Texas" (@mrjohndarby on Twitter)

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Just came here to say the same thing :-P

I figured, when I saw your avatar drop in just as I loaded the page :P

Got reminded by the badge award just like I did.