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StarkSt Vík 24VIII (Gautr 32)

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 32 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 24)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 275.

Starkaðr gamli StórvirkssonVíkarsbálkr
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text and translation

Réð Friðþjófr         friðar at biðja,
þvíat Víkarr         vægði ekki,
ok Starkaðr         Stórverksson
almátt fram         allan lagði.

Friðþjófr réð at biðja friðar, þvíat Víkarr vægði ekki, ok Starkaðr Stórverksson lagði fram allan almátt.
 
‘Friðþjófr had to sue for peace because Víkarr did not yield and Starkaðr Stórverksson exerted all his mighty strength.

notes and context

King Friðþjófr is finally forced to ask Víkarr for mercy because his army’s battle formation has disintegrated. The stanza is introduced with the words svá segir Starkaðr ‘so says Starkaðr’.

Although this stanza is found only in 590b-cˣ, 152 reproduces in its prose text (fol 199rb) the clause en hann vægði ekki ‘but he did not yield’, suggesting that its compiler knew the stanza but chose not to cite it. It is curious that the speaker refers to himself and his deeds in the third person in ll. 5-8. This stanza is in kviðuháttr metre.

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], E. 13. Vers af Fornaldarsagaer: Af Gautrekssaga α 8: AII, 329-30, BII, 350, Skald II, 189; FSN 3, 29, Gautr 1900, 25, FSGJ 4, 26; Edd. Min. 42.

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