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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Mgr 43VII/8 — bærðiz ‘stirred’

‘Fystan tel eg þann fögnuð hæstan;
fann eingill mig sólar þeingils;
hann sendi mier helgan anda
háleitan með gleði og teiti.
Glöddumz eg, þá er skaparinn skrýddi
skýfoldar sig mínu holdi,
meistari alls fyrir mínu brjósti,
mær var eg guðs, svá að hvern dag bærðiz.

‘Fystan tel eg þann hæstan fögnuð; eingill þeingils sólar fann mig; hann sendi mier háleitan helgan anda með gleði og teiti. Eg glöddumz, þá er skaparinn skýfoldar skrýddi sig holdi mínu, svá að meistari alls bærðiz hvern dag fyrir brjósti mínu; eg var mær guðs.

‘As the first I count that highest joy; the angel of the lord of the sun [= God] visited me; he sent me the sublime Holy Spirit with joy and cheer. I became glad, when the creator of the cloud-land [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)] adorned himself in my flesh, so that the master of the universe [= God (= Christ)] stirred each day beneath my breast; I was the Virgin of God.

readings

[8] bærðiz: hræddumz 713

notes

[8] bærðiz ‘[he] stirred, moved’: An emendation proposed by Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) for 713’s hræddumz ‘I feared’, which leaves the l. without internal rhyme and with an illicit double h- alliteration. Bærðiz is taken with meistari alls ‘the master of the universe’ (l. 7). Skald supplies hrærðumz ‘I moved’, implying that Mary felt the motion of the unborn child (see NN §2694; Sperber 1911, 76).

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