[5-6] ek sé haptbönd snúin Hjörleifi ‘I see captive bonds twisted for Hjǫrleifr’: This alludes to the same incident as is touched on in Hálf 4/5-8, in which Hjǫrleifr is captured, tied up with his own shoe thongs and placed between two fires (Hálf 1981, 176). For the idiom snúa e-m haptbǫnd ‘to twist captive bonds for sby’, see Gautr 11/8 and Note.
References
- Bibliography
- Hálf 1981 = Seelow, Hubert, ed. 1981. Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka. RSÁM 20. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 11 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 257.
- Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 4 (Anonymous Lausavísur, Lausavísur from Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 307.