Note to StarkSt Vík 26VIII (Gautr 34)
[6] en flögð ollu því ‘but demons caused that’: The line is reminiscent of the intercalary clause bǫnd ollu því ‘the powers caused that’ in Þjóð Haustl 17/2III, although flǫgð are lesser beings than the pre-Christian gods (bǫnd). Starkaðr is here attributing the cause of his dastardly sacrifice of his own leader to flǫgð, translated here as ‘demons’ rather than the more specific ‘ogresses, troll-women’. As the noun can refer to male as well as female supernatural beings (cf. Ingimarr Lv 1/1II), and may do so here, given the context, female causative agents have not been written into the translation.
References
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Ingimarr af Aski Sveinsson, Lausavísa 1’ 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, pp. 497-8.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Þjóðólfr ór Hvini, Haustlǫng 17’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 457.