Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 27 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 19)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 272.
Var sínkgjarn sagðr af gulli
Neri jarl, nýtr í ráðum,
Víkars sonr vanr í sóknum;
sá réð einn Upplendingum.
Neri jarl var sagðr sínkgjarn af gulli, nýtr í ráðum, sonr Víkars vanr í sóknum; sá réð einn Upplendingum.
‘Jarl Neri was said to be covetous of gold, capable in counsels, Víkarr’s son, accustomed to fight; he ruled alone over the Upplendingar. ’
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Var sínkgjarn
sagðr af gulli
Neri jarl,
nýtr í ráðum,
Víkars sonr
vanr í sóknum;
sá réð †eirn†
Upplendingum.
Var sinkgiarn | sagdr af gulle, Neri jall nitr i rädum, Vikarssonr vanr isoknum, sä red eirn Upp | lendingum
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