StarkSt Vík 16VIII (Gautr 24)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 24 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 16)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 269.
text and translation
Sneidda ek honum síðu aðra
bitrum brandi um búk þveran.
Svá ek af heiptum hjörvi beittak,
at alls megins áðr kostaðak.
Ek sneidda aðra síðu honum bitrum brandi um þveran búk. Ek beittak svá hjörvi af heiptum, at kostaðak áðr alls megins.
‘I sliced off one side of him with my sharp blade right across the body. Thus I wielded my sword with such fury that I had already expended all my strength. ’
notes and context
The single combat between Starkaðr and Sísarr continues, with Starkaðr striking back at Sísarr, slicing off part of his side and wounding him in one leg below the knee, finishing him off by hewing off the other leg at the ankle.
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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) — 4v/7 - 4v/9
imagesSneidda ek honum
síðu aðra
†brutt med† brandi
um búk þveran.
Svá ek af heiptum
hjörvi beittak,
at alls megins
áðr kostaðak.Sneidda | ec honum sidu adra brutt med brandi um bük þveran, so eg af heiptum, hiorfi beittag | ad allz meginz adr kostadig.
(HA)
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AM 152 fol (152) — 199ra/9 - 199ra/11
†Snei[…]ec† ek honum
images
síðu aðra
bitrum brandi
um búk þveran.
Svá ek af heiptum
hjörvi beittak,
at alls megins
áðr kostaðak.
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