Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 68’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 344.
Allar ógnir fær þú eigi vitat,
þær sem helgengnir hafa;
sætar synðir verða at sárum bótum;
æ koma mein eptir munuð.
Þú fær eigi vitat allar ógnir, þær sem helgengnir hafa; sætar synðir verða at sárum bótum; mein koma æ eptir munuð.
‘You will never get to know all the terrors which those who have gone to Hell have; sweet sins turn into bitter compensations; injuries always come after pleasure.’
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Allar ógnir
fær þú eigi vitat,
sem helgengnir hafa;
sætar synðir
verða á sárum bótum;
æ koma mein eptir munuð.
Allar ógnir
fær þú eigi vitat,
þær sem helgengnir hafa;
sætar synðir
verða á sárum ljótum;
er koma menn eptir munuð.
Allar ógnir
fær þú eigi vitat,
þær sem helgengnir hafa;
sætar synðir
verða á sárum bótum;
æ koma menn eptir munuð.
Allar ógnir
fær þú eigi vitat,
þá sem helgengnir hafa;
sætar synðir
verða at sárum bótum;
æ koma mein eptir munuð.
Allar ógnir
fær þú eigi vitat,
sem helgengnir hafa;
sætar synðir
verða á sárum bótum;
æ koma mein eptir munuð.
Allar ógnir
fær þú eigi vitat,
sem helgengnir hafa;
sætar synðir
verði at sárum bótum;
æ koma mein eptir munuð.
ALar ognir | fęr þu ei uitat | sem helgengnir hafa | sętar sindir | uerþı at sarom botom | ę kuama mein eptir munoþ
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Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 68: AI, 638, BI, 646, Skald I, 315; Bugge 1867, 367, Falk 1914, 39, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 20, Fidjestøl 1979, 69, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 95, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 74, 142.
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