Anonymous Poems, Stanzas Addressed to Fellow Ecclesiastics

Jonathan Grove

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Stanzas Addressed to Fellow Ecclesiastics — Anon Eccl^VII

Jonathan Grove 2007, ‘ Anonymous, Stanzas Addressed to Fellow Ecclesiastics’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 471-5. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=2923> (accessed 26 April 2024)

Ad te, care ave, mitto;
audi nostrum carmen laudis;
factus esto fratrum recte
flore decus seniorum.
Presta, summe Pater, castam
plene fidem Audoeno,
†aminaui† ut tu, Numen,
isto uiro prebuisti.

‘I send [this] to you, dear grandsire; hear our song of praise; flowering, may you be rightly made a splendour of the senior brethren. Bestow, Highest Father, spotless faith abundantly upon Audoenus, just as you, Godhead, have granted to that man ‘aminaui’.’

Esto, consors caste,
cura mente purus;
sume tibi, Thoma,
tutum fide scutum.
Vive intus, ave,
ortus celi porta;
inde gregis grandis
gaude Christi laude.

‘Chaste colleague, through attentiveness be pure in thought; take upon yourself, Thomas, the sheltering shield of faith. Having arisen, grandsire, dwell in the gateway of Heaven; then rejoice in the great congregation’s praise of Christ.’

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