Kredda — Þrándr KreddaI
Þrándr í GǫtuDiana Whaley 2012, ‘ Þrándr í Gǫtu, Kredda’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 802. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1473> (accessed 19 May 2024)
This málaháttr stanza (Þrándr Kredda) is the only verse citation in Fær; indeed its Faroese provenance is exceptional. If genuine it belongs in the early eleventh century. The word kredda is directly or indirectly from Lat. credo ‘creed’ (lit. ‘I believe’) and is first recorded in the Fær narrative. The stanza, however, is not a statement of the articles of Christian belief such as is found in the Nicene, Apostles’ or Athanasian Creeds, and hence is not so much an idiosyncratic creed as not a creed at all, but rather an early example of an ‘angel prayer’ and ‘going out prayer’. It is discussed in detail by Foote (1969a, mainly on metre and text, and Foote 1969b, mainly on context, title and genre). The stanza is preserved only in Flat (ms. Flat), within its text of Fær; a copy in 761bˣ derives from there and therefore has no independent value.
References
- Bibliography
- Foote, Peter G. 1969a. ‘A Note on Þránd’s kredda’. In Jakob Benediktsson 1969, 355-63. Rpt. with postscript in Foote 1984a, 199-208.
- Foote, Peter G. 1969b. ‘Þrándr and the Apostles’. In Pearsall et al. 1969, 129-40. Rpt. with postscript in Foote 1984a, 188-98.
- Internal references
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Flateyjarbók’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=44> (accessed 19 May 2024)
- (forthcoming), ‘ Unattributed, Færeyinga saga’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=122> (accessed 19 May 2024)
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