StarkSt Vík 27VIII (Gautr 35)/1 — eyrendis ‘result’
Þess eyrendis, at mér Þórr um skóp
níðings nafn, nauð margskonar;
hlaut ek óhróðingr ilt at vinna.
Þess eyrendis, at Þórr um skóp mér nafn níðings, margskonar nauð; ek hlaut óhróðingr at vinna ilt.
With this result, that Þórr shaped for me the name of traitor, distress of many kinds; inglorious, I was fated to perform evil deeds.
notes
[1] þess eyrendis ‘with this result’: One has to assume that this line is part of an otherwise unpreserved clause, which presumably related to the struggle between Óðinn and Þórr to govern Starkaðr’s fate, as reported in the prose text and also in Saxo. In particular when Óðinn granted him to live for three human lifespans, Þórr countered that hann skal vinna níðingsverk á hverjum mannzalldri ‘he will perform a níðingr’s deed in each human lifespan’ (cf. Gautr 1900, 29). The particular níðingsverk in this case is Starkaðr’s killing of Víkarr. The word eyrendi here means ‘result, consequence’ (of a particular message or action), as it does in some eddic poetry (cf. LP: ørendi), including Þry 10/1 (NK 112), Hefir þú erindi sem erfiði? ‘Have you got a result for your trouble?’