Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 19 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 11)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 265.
Var Víkari vant at fylgja,
þvíat fremstr ok fyrstr í flokki stóð.
Hjuggum hjálma með höfuðgnípum,
brynjur sníddum ok brutum skjöldu.
Var vant at fylgja Víkari, þvíat stóð fremstr ok fyrstr í flokki. Hjuggum hjálma með höfuðgnípum, sníddum brynjur ok brutum skjöldu.
‘It was difficult to follow Víkarr, because he stood foremost and first in the troop. We hewed helmets with head-peaks, we cut mail-coats and broke shields. ’
A short prose paragraph summarises the outcome of the battle: Herþjófr’s men put up a good fight, but Víkarr’s select troop prevails in the end. The stanza is put into Starkaðr’s mouth, with the usual svá segir Starkaðr ‘so says Starkaðr’ formula.
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.
Var Víkari
vant at fylgja,
þvíat fremstr ok fyrstr
í flokki stóð.
Hjuggum hjálma
með höfuðgnípum,
brynjur sníddum
ok brutum hjálma.
Var Vikare vant ad filgia, þviat fremstr og firstr i flocke stöd hiuggum hiälma | med hofud gnipum, brinjur sniddum og brutum hialma.
(HA)
Víkari er
vant at fylgja,
þvíat fremstr hann
í flokki stóð.
Hjuggum hjálma
með höfuðgnípum,
brynjum sneiddu
ok brutu skjöldu.
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