StarkSt Vík 22VIII (Gautr 30)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 30 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 22)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 274.
text and translation
Réð Óláfr austr inn skygni,
sældargramr, fyr Svíaríki.
Hann bauð út almenningi;
mikill var hans helmingr talinn.
Óláfr inn skygni réð austr, sældargramr, fyr Svíaríki. Hann bauð út almenningi; helmingr hans var mikill talinn.
‘Óláfr inn skygni (‘the Sharp-sighted’) ruled in the east, the prosperous ruler, over the kingdom of the Swedes. He ordered the conscripted army out; his division was reckoned great. ’
notes and context
King Óláfr the Sharp-sighted of Nærríki (Närke) in Sweden swings his support behind King Víkarr, ordering a general levy of his kingdom to come out to fight. He draws up his forces in a wedge-shaped column. The stanza expresses Starkaðr’s version of the event.
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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) — 5r/4 - 5r/5
imagesred Oläfr austr hinn skigni sælldar gramr fyrir Svia riki hann baud üt almenningi | micell var hans helmingr talenn.
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