StarkSt Vík 23VIII (Gautr 31)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 31 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 23)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 275.
Gengum fram í glam vápna,
konungsmenn kappi gnægðir.
Þar var Úlfr ok Erpr lítinn;
hjó ek brynjulauss báðum höndum.
Gengum fram í glam vápna, konungsmenn gnægðir kappi. Úlfr var þar ok Erpr lítinn; ek hjó brynjulauss báðum höndum.
We advanced in the clash of weapons, the king’s men endowed with vigour. Úlfr was there and Erpr lítinn (‘the Small’); I hewed without a mail-coat with both hands.
Mss: 590b-cˣ(5r) (Gautr)
Readings: [4] kappi: kappa 590b‑cˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 329, Skj BII, 350, Skald II, 189; FSN 3, 28, Gautr 1900, 25, FSGJ 4, 25; Edd. Min. 42.
Context: The battle is joined and Víkarr’s champions fight very well. Starkaðr fights using both hands and is not wearing a coat of mail. The stanza is introduced with the words sem hér segir ‘as it says here’.
Notes: [All]: This stanza is metrically mixed, with ll. 1, 3 and 5 being in kviðuháttr, and l. 7 in fornyrðislag. — [4] kappi ‘with vigour’: The sole ms. has kappa but the dat. sg. of kapp n. ‘power, vigour’ is required rather than the dat. sg. of kappi m. ‘champion’. — [5, 6] Úlfr … ok Erpr ‘Úlfr … and Erpr’: Two of King Víkarr’s warriors, mentioned here in the prose text and earlier in Vík 8/5 (Gautr 16).
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.
- Internal references
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 16 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 262.
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