StarkSt Vík 29VIII (Gautr 37)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 37 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 29)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 280.
text and translation
Þaðan vappaðak viltar brautir,
Hörðum leiðr, með huga illan,
hringa vanr ok hróðrkvæða,
dróttinlauss, dapr alls hugar.
Þaðan vappaðak viltar brautir, leiðr Hörðum, með illan huga, vanr hringa ok hróðrkvæða, dróttinlauss, dapr alls hugar.
‘From there I wandered bewildering ways, hateful to the Hǫrðar, with a dark mind, lacking in rings and poems of praise, lordless, depressed in my whole mind. ’
notes and context
As for Vík 26.
Lines 3, 5 and 7 are in kviðuháttr metre, the rest in fornyrðislag (but see Note to l. 1 below). — Starkaðr’s self-depiction as a social outcast, depressed and lacking the most valuable benefits of a courtly life, especially material wealth, the opportunity to compose poetry and the company of a lord, is strongly reminiscent of similar self-presentation in the Old English poems Deor, ll. 35-41 and (without the poetry theme) The Wanderer ll. 20-9.
readings
- [1] vappaðak: so 152, vappaði ek 590b‑cˣ
- [2] brautir: götur (‘gótr’) 152
- [5] hringa: hrings 152
- [6] hróðr‑: so 152, hróðs 590b‑cˣ
sources
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) — 6v/1 - 6v/2
imagesÞaðan vappaði ek
viltar brautir,
Hörðum leiðr,
með huga illan,
hringa vanr
ok hróðskvæða,
dróttinlauss,
dapr alls hugar.þadan vappadi eg villtar brautir, hordum leidr med huga illan, hringa vanr, og hrödz | qveda, drottin lauz dapr allz hugar.
(HA)
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AM 152 fol (152) — 199vb/39 - 200ra/1
Þaðan vappaðak
images
viltar götur (‘gótr’),
Hörðum leiðr,
með huga illan,
hrings vanr
ok hróðrkvæða,
dróttinlauss,
dapr alls hugar.
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