StarkSt Vík 25VIII (Gautr 33)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 33 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 25)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 276.
text and translation
Mér gaf Víkarr valamálm,
hring inn rauða, er ek á hendi ber,
mér þrímerking, en ek Þrumu honum;
fylgða ek fylki fimtán sumur.
Víkarr gaf mér valamálm, hring inn rauða, er ek ber á hendi, mér þrímerking, en ek [gaf] honum Þrumu; ek fylgða fylki fimtán sumur.
‘Víkarr gave me costly metal, the red [gold] ring, which I wear on my arm, [a ring] three marks in weight for me, and I [gave] him Tromøy; I followed the ruler for fifteen summers. ’
notes and context
The prose narrative concludes its account of the conflict between Friðþjófr and Víkarr with the latter dominant. The beginning of the Gjafa-Refs þáttr is then woven into the narrative, which introduces its protagonists, Neri (already sketchily present) and Refr, while keeping sight of King Víkarr and his champion Starkaðr. It tells that their friendship was strengthened with mutual gift-giving: Víkarr gave Starkaðr a gold bracelet of three marks’ weight and Starkaðr reciprocated by giving Víkarr the island of Tromøy (Þruma), which King Haraldr of Agder had once given his father Stórvirkr. This stanza is then cited (in 590b-cˣ alone) as evidence that Starkaðr stayed with Víkarr for fifteen summers sem hann segir ‘as he says’.
The metre of this stanza is fornyrðislag, but l. 2 is hypometrical.
sources
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.
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AM 590 b-c 4°x (590b-cx) — 5v/9 - 5v/11
imagesMier gaf Vikar vala | mälm, hring enn rauda, er eg ä hendi ber, mier þrimerking, enn eg þrumu honum, | filgda ec filke fimtan sumur
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