StarkSt Vík 17VIII (Gautr 25)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 25 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 17)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 270.
Lét ‘had’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
þreksamr ‘The powerful one’
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þreksamr (adj.)
þriðja ‘for a third’
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þriði (num. ordinal): third
notes
[2] þriðja sinni ‘for a third time’: No other times are mentioned in either the prose or the poetry, suggesting that both may have been shortened. The prose introduction to this stanza also suggests the compiler may have been aware of the lack of information at his disposal to cover the content of this stanza.
sinni ‘time’
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2. sinn (noun n.; °?dat. -): time
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[2] þriðja sinni ‘for a third time’: No other times are mentioned in either the prose or the poetry, suggesting that both may have been shortened. The prose introduction to this stanza also suggests the compiler may have been aware of the lack of information at his disposal to cover the content of this stanza.
Hildar ‘of Hildr’
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2. Hildr (noun f.): Hildr
kennings
leik Hildar‘the play of Hildr ’
= BATTLE
the play of Hildr → BATTLE
leik ‘the play’
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1. leikr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ar): sport, play
kennings
leik Hildar‘the play of Hildr ’
= BATTLE
the play of Hildr → BATTLE
háðan ‘held’
verða ‘’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
áðr ‘before’
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áðr (adv.; °//): before
Upplönd ‘Opplandene’
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Upplǫnd (noun n.): Opplandene
unnin ‘won’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
yrði ‘could be’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
Geirþjófr ‘Geirþjófr’
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Geirþjófr (noun m.)
um ‘over’
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1. um (prep.): about, around
gefinn ‘given’
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gefa (verb): give
helju ‘to death’
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1. hel (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju): death, Hel, hell
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The prose saga turns to Geirþjófr, the brother of Víkarr’s adversary, King Herþjófr. Geirþjófr seeks revenge for Víkarr’s killing of Herþjófr and assembles a huge fighting force in Upplǫnd (Opplandene), while Víkarr travels there with a large army to oppose him. A seventeen-day battle ensues, which Víkarr wins, and Geirþjófr is killed. Víkarr now becomes king of Upplǫnd and Þelamǫrk (Telemark), taking over the latter while its king, Friðþjófr, another brother of Herþjófr, is away. The stanza is introduced with the words: Þess getr Starkaðr, at sú var hin þriðja orrosta Víkars konungs, er hann hafði unnit á Upplǫndum ‘Starkaðr reports that that was the third battle of King Víkarr, which he had fought in Opplandene’.
The stanza is in the metre kviðuháttr, a variant of fornyrðislag in which the odd lines consist of three, rather than four, metrical positions, and the even lines are regular fornyrðislag. For a discussion of the metre and its uses, see General Introduction in SkP I, Section 4.3.
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