page_title: Starkad
hierarchical_section_title: Starkad
caption_attribution_description: English: Part of the Carta Marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, depicting the location of magnetic north vaguely conceived as "INSVLA MAGNETV[M]" (Latin for "Island of Magnets") off the modern city Murmansk. The man character holding the rune staffs is the Norse hero Starkad. The rune staffs are inscribed "Starcaterus" (left) and "pugil Sueticus" (right) in runes. The inscription "STARCATERVS PVGIL SVETICVS" (Starcater Swedish fist fighter) is repeated in Latin characters.
context_page_description: Starkad was either an eight-armed giant or the human grandson of the aforementioned giant in Norse mythology.
  Starkad appears in numerous accounts, and the stories of his adventures relate to different Scandinavian traditions. He is most fully treated in Gesta Danorum but he also appears in Icelandic sources. He is portrayed as a great warrior who performed many heroic deeds but also many crimes.
  A cognate of the Starkad legends can be found in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
context_section_description: Starkad (Old Norse: Starkaðr or Störkuðr; Latin: Starcaterus; in the Late Middle Ages also Starkodder; modern Danish: Stærkodder) was either an eight-armed giant or the human grandson of the aforementioned giant in Norse mythology.
  Starkad appears in numerous accounts, and the stories of his adventures relate to different Scandinavian traditions. He is most fully treated in Gesta Danorum but he also appears in Icelandic sources. He is portrayed as a great warrior who performed many heroic deeds but also many crimes.
  A cognate of the Starkad legends can be found in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
caption: Starkad as illustrated on Carta Marina (1539) by Olaus Magnus.
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