StarkSt Vík 21VIII (Gautr 29)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 29 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 21)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 273.
Réðum um … lengi;
urðum vit ekki dælir.
Þat kaus herr, at konungr skyldi
ríkr með her rómu knýja.
Réðum um … lengi; vit urðum ekki dælir. Herr kaus þat, at ríkr konungr skyldi knýja rómu með her.
We debated … long; we were not easy to deal with. The army chose that the powerful king should press on with the battle with his troop.
Mss: 590b-cˣ(4v) (Gautr)
Readings: [2] … lengi: lengi 590b‑cˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 329, Skj BII, 349, Skald II, 188, NN §3295; FSN 3, 27, Gautr 1900, 24, FSGJ 4, 24; Edd. Min. 41.
Context: The saga prose indicates
that Víkarr and his counsellors discussed at some length how to proceed.
Notes: [All]: The first helmingr of this stanza reverts to the 1st pers. pl. mode of narrative, like earlier stanzas of Vík, but the second continues with 3rd pers. narrative. Vit ‘we’ (l. 3) is 1st pers. dual, yet the pl. would be expected in this context. — [2] … lengi ‘… long’: There is no gap in
the ms. between um (l. 1)
and lengi but a word is
clearly missing. It must be disyllabic with a long stem and begin with r- or a vowel. The expected sense would be ‘we did not debate for long’ or
words to that effect.
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.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 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.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (forthcoming), ‘ Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3118> (accessed 4 May 2024)
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