[All]: This stanza is missing in mss of the shorter version of Gautr. Instead of the expected single long l. 6 of a ljóðaháttr stanza, it has two irregular lines. It is possible that l. 7 is a later addition, and that the original l. 6 was a regular ljóðaháttr line. Kock (Skald) deletes l. 7 and emends 590b-cˣ’s version of l. 6 to read svá góligan grip ‘such a fine possession’. Gautr 1900 and Edd. Min. divide ll. 5-7 as follows: mun ek aldri eiga | síðan jafngóligan | grip, þó ek gamall verða ‘I shall never afterwards own an equally fine possession, though I grow old’. The present edn follows the version of 152, though it is unmetrical.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
- Gautr 1900 = Ranisch, Wilhelm, ed. 1900. Die Gautrekssaga in zwei Fassungen. Palaestra 11. Berlin: Mayer & Müller.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Gautreks saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 241. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=9> (accessed 24 April 2024)