[1] tapaðiz ‘perished’: The readings of 590b-cˣ and papp11ˣ do not offer a satisfactory alternative here, either metrically or in terms of sense, even though Gautr 1900 and Edd. Min. offer the cpd herhrǫðuðr or the emended ok herhrǫðuðr, which are construed with the last two lines of Vík 1 (Gautr 9), though no interpretation is offered. The cpd hrǫtuðr occurs as a fire-heiti in Þul Elds 1/7III in the sense ‘stumbling’, possibly related to hrata ‘stagger, tumble’, but this does not seem either syntactically or lexically appropriate here.
References
- Bibliography
- 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
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Elds heiti 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 921.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 9 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 255.