Note to StarkSt Vík 27^VIII (Gautr 35)

[3] nafn níðings ‘the name of traitor’: The Old Norse noun níðingr has a semi-legal sense and encompasses the semantic range ‘wretch, worthless man, traitor, apostate’, terms that indicate that the person in question was both socially and morally undesirable (cf. Meulengracht Sørensen 1983, 31-2). The noun is strongly condemnatory, and derives from the noun níð ‘insult, shaming slander’, itself a term defined in both early Norwegian and Icelandic law codes (NGL I, 70; Grg II, 392). In Starkaðr’s case, his crime is that of treachery towards his lord, King Víkarr, whom he killed unintentionally in what he was led by Óðinn to believe was a mock sacrifice.

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