Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 17 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 9)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 263.
Styr ok Steinþóri frá Staði norðan;
þar var inn gamli Gunnólfr blesi.
Þá váru vér þrettán saman;
fær varliga fríðri drengi.
Styr ok Steinþóri frá norðan Staði; inn gamli Gunnólfr blesi var þar. Þá váru vér þrettán saman; fær varliga fríðri drengi.
‘Styrr and Steinþórr from north of Stadlandet; the old Gunnólfr blesi (‘Blaze’) was there. We were then thirteen together; finer fellows are scarcely to be had. ’
As for Gautr 16.
This stanza carries on syntactically from Gautr 16, completing the list of the twelve champions (kappar) Víkarr gathered together. Like the personal names in Gautr 16, the personal names in 17/1 are in the dat. sg., dependent on the verb safnaði ‘gathered’ in Gautr 16/1.
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.
Stir og Steinþori, fra Stade nordan, | þar var hinn gamle Gunolfr | Blese, þä voro vier þrettan saman, fær varliga fridri dreinge
(HA)
Styr ok Stein-þór
frá stöðum norðan;
þar var inn gamli
Gunnólfr blesi.
Þá váru vér
þrettán saman;
fær varliga
fríðu drengi.
Styr ok Steinþóri
frá Staði norðan;
þar var inn gamli
Gunnólfr blesi.
Þá váru vér
þrettán saman;
fær valla
fríðari drengi.
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