StarkSt Vík 7VIII (Gautr 15)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 15 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 261.
text and translation
Hann mældi mik mundum ok spönnum,
alla arma til úlfliða,
… …,
vaxit hári á höku niðri.
Hann mældi mik mundum ok spönnum, alla arma til úlfliða, … vaxit hári á höku niðri.
‘He measured me with hands and hand-breadths, all my arms to the wrists … grown with hair down on my chin. ’
notes and context
As for Gautr 13.
Immediately after the end of this stanza, the prose text offers the following gloss: Hér segir Starkaðr frá því, at hann hafði þá skegg er hann var tólf vetra ‘Here Starkaðr tells that he already had a beard when he was twelve years old’. This explanation may have been given because the stanza itself was defective when the prose text was first composed; neither ms. has a full eight-line stanza, yet there is no lacuna in either for the missing lines (probably ll. 5-6 in the original version), which would have mentioned Starkaðr’s precocious growth of beard. It is interesting that the explanatory prose gloss is also present in papp11ˣ, though the stanza is absent.
readings
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/33 - 3v/34
imageshann mællte mic mundum og spꜹnnum, alla arma til ülflida, vaxed hare | ä ho᷎ku nidre.
(HA)
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AM 152 fol (152) — 198va/27 - 198va/29
Hann mældi mik
images
mundum ok spönnum,
alla arma
til úlfliða,
…
…,
vaxit hári
ok höku niðri.
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