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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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StarkSt Vík 31VIII (Gautr 39)/1 — settu ‘they set’

Hér settu mik         sveina milli,
heldr hæðinna         ok hvítbránna.
Skelkja skatnar         ok skaup draga,
ófs óframir,         at jöfurs greppi.

Hér settu mik milli sveina, heldr hæðinna ok hvítbránna. Skatnar skelkja ok draga skaup, ófs óframir, at greppi jöfurs.

Here they set me between serving men, rather mocking and white-eyelashed. The fellows mock and, exceedingly cautious, hold the prince’s poet up to ridicule.

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[All]: There is some resemblance between Vík 31-3 (Gautr 39-41) and part of one of Starkatherus’s poems in Saxo (Saxo 2015, I, vi. 9. 4, pp. 424-6), in which the aged hero contrasts his previously favourable reception at Fróði’s court with his present despised position among the riff-raff in the hall.

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