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Note to StarkSt Vík 31VIII (Gautr 39)

[All]: There is some resemblance between Vík 31-3 (Gautr 39-41) and part of one of Starkatherus’s poems in Saxo (Saxo 2015, I, vi. 9. 4, pp. 424-6), in which the aged hero contrasts his previously favourable reception at Fróði’s court with his present despised position among the riff-raff in the hall.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Saxo 2015 = Friis-Jensen, Karsten, ed. 2015. Saxo Grammaticus: Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes. Trans. Peter Fisher. Oxford Medieval Texts. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon.
  3. Internal references
  4. Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 39 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 31)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 283.

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