Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 48’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 329.
Virði þat ok viti inn virki guð,
sá er skóp hauðr ok himin,
hversu munaðarlausir margir fara,
þótt við skylda skili.
Inn virki guð, sá er skóp hauðr ok himin, virði þat ok viti: hversu margir fara munaðarlausir, þótt við skylda skili.
‘May the precious God, who created earth and heaven, value and know that, how many journey loveless, though they part from their kin.’
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Virði ok viti þat
sá inn virki guð,
sá er skóp hauðr ok himin,
hversu einmana
margir fara,
þótt við skylda skili.
Virði þat ok viti
inn virki guð,
sá er skóp hauðr ok himin,
hversu einmunalausir
margir fara,
þótt við skylda skili.
Virði þat ok viti
inn virki guð,
sá er skóp hauðr ok himin,
hversu munaðarlausir
margir lifa fara,
þótt við skylda skili.
Virði ok viti þat
inn virki guð,
sá er skóp hauðr ok himin,
hversu einmana
margir fara,
þótt við skylda skili.
Virði ok viti þat
inn virki guð,
sá er skóp hauðr ok himin,
hversi einmanalausir
margir fara,
þótt við skylda skili.
Uirþi ok uiti þat | iɴ uirki Guþ | sa er skop hauþr ok himin | huersı einmanalausir | margir fara | þo uit skylda skili
(TW)
Virði þat ok viti
inn virki guð,
sá er skóp hauðr ok himin,
hversu einmana
margir fara,
þótt við skylda skili.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 48: AI, 635, BI, 643, Skald I, 313; Bugge 1867, 365, Falk 1914, 19, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 16, Fidjestøl 1979, 66, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 78, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 54, 124-5.
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