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.
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.
Mss: 590b-cˣ(4v), 152(199ra) (Gautr)
Readings: [1] Sneidda: ‘Snei[…]ec’ 152 [3] bitrum: so 152, ‘brutt med’ 590b‑cˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 327, Skj BII, 346-7, Skald II, 187; FSN 3, 24-5, Gautr 1900, 21, FSGJ 4, 21; Edd. Min. 41.
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.
Notes:
References
- Bibliography
- FSN = Rafn, Carl Christian, ed. 1829-30. Fornaldar sögur nordrlanda. 3 vols. Copenhagen: Popp.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- FSGJ = Guðni Jónsson, ed. 1954. Fornaldar sögur norðurlanda. 4 vols. [Reykjavík]: Íslendingasagnaútgáfan.
- Edd. Min. = Heusler, Andreas and Wilhelm Ranisch, eds. 1903. Eddica Minora: Dichtungen eddischer Art aus den Fornaldarsögur und anderen Prosawerken. Dortmund: Ruhfus. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
- Gautr 1900 = Ranisch, Wilhelm, ed. 1900. Die Gautrekssaga in zwei Fassungen. Palaestra 11. Berlin: Mayer & Müller.
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