Note to StarkSt Vík 5VIII (Gautr 13)
[2] tjálgur ‘branches’: The noun tjálgr (alternative form tjalga) has the primary sense of ‘branch, bough’ (cf. AEW: tjalga), but both here and in Vík 33/5 (Gautr 41) is clearly a half-kenning referring to Starkaðr’s long arms. A similar sense occurs in Sigv ErfÓl 25/7I tjǫlgur handar ‘branches of the hand’, a kenning for the arms. In both instances of the use of the word in Vík, there is likely to be an allusion to an attribute of Starkaðr, described in Gautr 40 as well as in Saxo’s Gesta Danorum. See further Vík 32 (Gautr 40), Note to [All].
References
- Bibliography
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- Internal references
- 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 26 April 2024)
- Judith Jesch (ed.) 2012, ‘Sigvatr Þórðarson, Erfidrápa Óláfs helga 25’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 695.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 40 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 32)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 284.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 41 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 33)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 286.
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