[2, 3] yfirskínandi ást (f. nom. sg.) ‘radiant [lit. over-shining] love’: This is a form of address to S. Andrew (so Sperber 1911, 56; NN §1674; Schottmann 1973, 68 n. 10; Wrightson). Skj B interprets the phrase as a dat. instr. (‘with radiant love’), which is awkward, because stýra ‘guide’ already has a dat. object (orðum mínum ‘my words’). See also Mv I 2/1: inn æsti ástvin guðs ‘noblest bosom friend of God’, i.e. ‘S. Andrew’. For the invocation to Andrew, see Introduction above.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Schottmann, Hans. 1973. Die isländische Mariendichtung. Untersuchungen zur volkssprachigen Mariendichtung des Mittelalters. Münchner germanistische Beiträge 9. Munich: Fink.
- Sperber, Hans, ed. 1911. Sechs isländische Gedichte legendarischen Inhalts. Uppsala Universitets årsskrift, filosofi, språkvetenskap och historiska vetenskaper 2. Uppsala: Akademische Buchdruckerei Edv. Berling.
- Internal references
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 2’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 680.