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.
notes
[1] Herþjófr: According to an earlier passage of Gautr (Gautr 1900, 11), Herþjófr was the son of a certain Húnþjófr, King of Hordaland, who was in turn the son of Friðþjófr the Bold and Ingibjǫrg the Fair, who are the protagonists of another fornaldarsaga, Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna ‘The Saga of Friðþjófr the Bold’ (Frið). For a discussion of the possible relations between these two sagas and their genealogical information, see Gautr 1900, lxxxix-xcii.
um ‘’
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2. um (particle): (particle)
vélti ‘tricked’
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véla (verb): betray, trick
sér ‘to himself’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
ójafnan ‘unequal’
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ójafn (adj.)
sveik ‘he betrayed’
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svíkja (verb): betray, deceive
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
trygðum ‘his plighted oath’
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tryggð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-ar): security, oath
Egða ‘of the Egðir’
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Egðir (noun m.): the Egðir
kennings
dróttin Egða‘the lord of the Egðir ’
= Haraldr
the lord of the Egðir → Haraldr
dróttin ‘the lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
[5] dróttin: dróttni papp11ˣ
kennings
dróttin Egða‘the lord of the Egðir ’
= Haraldr
the lord of the Egðir → Haraldr
öndu ‘of life’
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2. ǫnd (noun f.; °andar, dat. ǫnd/ǫndu; andir): soul, breath
[6] öndu: auðnu 152
rænti ‘robbed’
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ræna (verb): rob
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
hans ‘for his’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
sonum ‘sons’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
hapt ‘captive’
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haft (noun n.; °; *-): fetter < haftband (noun n.)
[8] haptbönd: haptland or hæptland with t added above the line papp11ˣ
notes
[8] haptbönd ‘captive shackles’: There is one other instance of this cpd in Old Norse poetry, Hálf 5/6, where snúa ‘twist’ co-occurs. The first element is hapt ‘fetter, shackle’, metaphorically ‘restraint, curb’; cf. OE hæft ‘bond, fetter’, OHG haft ‘fetter, captivity’.
bönd ‘shackles’
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band (noun n.; °-s; *-): band, bond < haftband (noun n.)
[8] haptbönd: haptland or hæptland with t added above the line papp11ˣ
notes
[8] haptbönd ‘captive shackles’: There is one other instance of this cpd in Old Norse poetry, Hálf 5/6, where snúa ‘twist’ co-occurs. The first element is hapt ‘fetter, shackle’, metaphorically ‘restraint, curb’; cf. OE hæft ‘bond, fetter’, OHG haft ‘fetter, captivity’.
sneri ‘twisted’
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snúa (verb): turn
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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.
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