StarkSt Vík 18VIII (Gautr 26)
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 26 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 18)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 271.
Átti sér erfivörðu
tírsamr tvá tyggi alna.
Hét hans son Haraldr inn ellri;
setti þann at Þelamörku.
Tírsamr tyggi átti tvá erfivörðu alna sér. Inn ellri son hans hét Haraldr; setti þann at Þelamörku.
The fame-desiring ruler had two heirs born to him. The elder son of his was called Haraldr; he placed that one over Telemark.
Mss: 590b-cˣ(4v) (Gautr)
Editions: Skj AII, 329, Skj BII, 349, Skald II, 188; FSN 3, 26, Gautr 1900, 23, FSGJ 4, 22-3; Edd. Min. 41.
Context: The prose text tells that Víkarr becomes a very powerful king. He marries an unnamed wife and has two sons, the elder Haraldr, the younger Neri. Neri was the wisest of men and gave good advice, but was so stingy (svá var hann sínkr) that he could never give anything away without immediately longing for it again. Vík 18 and 19 (Gautr 26 and 27) are then cited as Starkaðr’s comment on these matters.
Notes: [2] erfivörðu ‘heirs’: The noun erfivǫrðr is not common in skaldic poetry, though it occurs twice in the late C12th Anon Nkt 3/7 and 13/4II, but is found in several poems of the Poetic Edda (cf. LP: erfivǫrðr). — [5] son ‘son’: The ms. has ‘sun’. Most eds restore the final <r> to give the nom. sg. case, but this is not necessary, as the nom. form without <r> is common (ANG §395. 1).
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.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- 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
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nóregs konungatal 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 763-4.
- Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 26 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 18)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 271.
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