Vitgeirr seiðmaðr (Vitg)
9th century; volume 1; ed. Kari Ellen Gade;
Lausavísa (Lv) - 1
Aside from the brief sections in Hkr (Hhárf), ÓT, and ÓH which relate the episode containing this stanza, Vitgeirr seiðmaðr ‘Sorcerer’ (Vitg) is not mentioned elsewhere. According to the prose texts, he was a Norwegian who lived in Hǫrðaland (Hordaland), around 900.
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Lausavísa —
Vitg LvI
Kari Ellen Gade 2012, ‘ Vitgeirr seiðmaðr, Lausavísa’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 141. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1501> (accessed 24 May 2022)
stanzas: 1
Skj: Vitgeirr seiðmaðr: Lausavísa (AI, 33, BI, 29); stanzas (if different): [v]
in texts: Flat, HHárf, Hkr, ÓH, ÓT
SkP info: I, 141
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