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the article cited, it was a manuscript of precisely this version of
HeiSreks saga that AJ used. It is natural therefore to conclude
that the name of StarkaSr’s father was taken from there. AJ
could also have learned that StarkaSr had eight arms from the
same source, although this is also found in Vikarsbalkr. The
manner of StarkaSr’s death and the place where he fought
against l>6rr are known from no other source. Jån Helgason has
suggested that they come from a Gautreks saga fuller than the
one we now possess. This is not improbable—it is at any rate
certain that AJ used a Gautreks saga, since most of his informa-
tion about the two StarkaSr’s is found only there. Cf. Introduc-
tion, ch. III no. 42.
34031 Hildam: Only named here, as is also her father Alo
(Ali) ; her descent explains both the name of her son, Ali inn
frækni, and the faet that he does not inherit the kingdom. The
name Alo Opplandorum Rex occurs again below, see I 3 463 and
note.
34i3ff. Cf. Hkr. I 46. Yngl. gives here only an extremely brief
summary of the narrative in Skjpld. There is however in Yngl.
a completely different chronological scheme, since Ali here de-
feats Aun inn gamli, while in Skjpld. Frodo IV, after Åli’s death,
subdues King Jprundr, who in Yngl. is Aun’s father. See on this
Olrik, Aarb. 1894, pp. 145-6, where the very plausible sug-
gestion is advanced that Yngl.’s chronology is the work of Snorri,
who rejected here the chronology of Skjpld. AJ has not, on the
other hånd, attempted to reconcile the two arrangements, which
must certainly indicate that in this point he is reproducing his
source unaltered.—The circumstances of Åli’s slaying were ob-
viously described in considerable detail in Skjpld. Yngl. says only
that StarkaSr slew him; in Norna-Gests f)åttr (Flat. I 354) it is
said, however, that this happened “i laugu”, a point which pos-
sibly goes back to Skjpld.
3416 magnus . . vel celebris: In Yngl. he is called FråSi inn
frækni, but from AJ’s version one would be more inelined to be-
lieve that his source had called him “inn frægi”.
3421 Iorundum: See note to I 3413 ff.
34225—34316 The account in Bjarka rimur VII 5—12 corresponds
to the family-tree and the remainder of the chapter, whilst in