Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 20 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 12)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 266.
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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Víkarr (noun m.)
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2. vegr (noun m.; °-s/-ar, dat. -): honour
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1. um (prep.): about, around
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auðinn (adj.; °compar. auðnari): fated, decreed
[2] auðit: ‘ath bid’ 152
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2. en (conj.): but, and
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Herþjófr (noun m.)
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heift (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): hatred, enmity
[4] heiptir: herför 152
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1. gjalda (verb): pay, repay
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særa (verb): wound
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seggr (noun m.; °; -ir): man
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2. en (conj.): but, and
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2. sumr (pron.): some
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drepa (verb; °drepr; drap, drápu; drepinn): kill, strike
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standa (verb): stand
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
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fjarri (adv.): far, far from it, unlikely
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2. þá (adv.): then
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
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konungr (noun m.; °dat. -i, -s; -ar): king
[8] fell konungr: konungr fell 152
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A short prose passage tells that Starkaðr and Víkarr fought side by side against King Herþjófr and eventually killed him. The other champions also distinguished themselves in the fight, as Starkaðr is reported to have commemorated in this stanza, introduced with the usual svá segir Starkaðr ‘so says Starkaðr’ (so 590b-cˣ, but Starkaðr kvað in 152).
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