Note to StarkSt Vík 2VIII (Gautr 10)
[6] arfþegar Freka ‘heirs of Freki’: Freki, the father of Starkaðr’s mother Unnr, is said in the prose text to be from Hålogaland in the north of Norway. The noun Freki, related to the adj. frekr ‘ravenous’, can be applied to a wolf (cf. Vsp 51/6), as well as to fire and warriors (cf. LT: freki). The cpd arfþegi ‘heir’, lit. ‘inheritance receiver’, also occurs in Gautr 16/3 and Ív Sig 30/7II, a poem that Ranisch considered (Gautr 1900, cviii) may have been influenced by Vík, though the influence may well have gone the other way.
References
- Bibliography
- Gautr 1900 = Ranisch, Wilhelm, ed. 1900. Die Gautrekssaga in zwei Fassungen. Palaestra 11. Berlin: Mayer & Müller.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite ()
- Margaret Clunies Ross (forthcoming), ‘ Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3118> (accessed 25 April 2024)
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ívarr Ingimundarson, Sigurðarbálkr 30’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 519.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 16 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 262.