StarkSt Vík 3VIII (Gautr 11)
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.
text and translation
Þá * Herþjófr Harald um vélti;
sér ójafnan sveik í trygðum,
Egða dróttin öndu rænti,
en hans sonum haptbönd sneri.
Þá * um vélti Herþjófr Harald; sveik ójafnan sér í trygðum, rænti {dróttin Egða} öndu, en sneri sonum hans haptbönd.
‘Then Herþjófr tricked Haraldr; he betrayed [a man] unequal to himself in his plighted oath, robbed the lord of the Egðir [= Haraldr] of life and twisted captive shackles for his sons. ’
notes and context
This stanza and the immediately following Vík 4 (Gautr 12) follow a prose passage that tells that Herþjófr, king of Hordaland (ON Hǫrðaland), made a surprise night attack on King Haraldr of Agder and killed him in spite of his plighted oath (drap hann í trygðum), taking his son Víkarr as a hostage, as well as many other sons of powerful men.
readings
- [1] Þá *: þá er all
- [1] Herþjófr (‘Herþ.̂’): Herþjófi 152
- [2] Harald: Haraldi 152
- [5] dróttin: dróttni papp11ˣ
- [6] öndu: auðnu 152
- [8] haptbönd: haptland or hæptland with t added above the line papp11ˣ
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 590 b-c 4°x (590b-cx) — 3v/19 - 3v/20
imagesþä er Herþ.̂ Harald um velte, | ser öjafnan sveik i trigdum, Egda dʀotten ondu rænte, enn hans sonum haptbond sneri.
(HA)
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AM 152 fol (152) — 198va/6 - 198va/8
þá er Herþjófi
images
Haraldi um vélti;
sér ójafnan
sveik í trygðum,
Egða dróttin
auðnu rænti,
en hans sonum
haptbönd sneri. -
Holm papp 11 8°x (papp11x) — 5r - 5r
þá er Herþjófr
images
Harald um vélti;
sér ójafnan
sveik í trygðum,
Egða dróttni
öndu rænti,
en hans sonum
haptland sneri.
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