Autumn sacrificial feast; Vetrnætr wording in a related recension

OLD NORSE

Um haustit at vetri var blótveizla á Hlǫðum … [A related extended royal-saga tradition gives the dating with at vetrnóttum.]

TRANSLATION

In autumn, at the beginning of winter, there was a sacrificial feast at Hlaðir … [A related extended royal-saga tradition dates the episode at Vetrnætr.]

DIRECTLY ATTESTED:

A major sacrificial feast at Hlaðir in autumn/beginning of winter; a related recension uses explicit Vetrnætr wording.

CONTEXTUAL:

The same narrative complex circulates in more than one royal-saga textual context.

MY INTERPRETATION:

I do not count the Vetrnætr wording here as a wholly independent witness. It is better treated as a textual parallel showing how the seasonal dating was transmitted.

NOT ESTABLISHED:

That this supplies a separate independent Vetrnætr tradition in addition to Hákonar saga góða.

QUOTED FROM:

Hákonar saga góða, ch. 17 in the Heimskringla tradition; compare the extended Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar textual tradition.

FIND IT YOURSELF:

Search: blótveizla á Hlǫðum; in the extended tradition compare at vetrnóttum.

TEXTUAL NOTE:

This passage belongs to a narrative complex preserved in related royal-saga traditions. Because the versions are textually related, they should not be counted automatically as independent evidence simply because Vetrnætr wording appears in more than one recension

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