Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 73’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 347-8.
Helgar meyjar höfðu hreinliga
sál af synðum þvegit
manna þeira, er á mörgum degi
pína sjálfa sik.
Helgar meyjar höfðu hreinliga þvegit af synðum sál manna þeira, er á mörgum degi pína sjálfa sik.
‘Holy maidens had washed clean [lit. cleanly] of sin the souls of those men who on many a day mortify themselves.’
[4-6]: Paasche (1948, 193) compares the adjuration to mortification of the flesh in HómÍsl 1872, 60.
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Helgar meyjar
höfðu hreinliga
sál af synðum þvegit
manna þeira,
er á helgum degi
pína sjálfa sik.
Helgar meyjar
höfðu hreinliga
sál af synðum þvegit
menn þeir ,
er á mörgum degi
pína sjálfa sik.
Helgar meyjar
höfðu hreinligan
sál af synðum þvegit
manna þeira,
er á mörgum degi
pína sjálfa sik.
Helgar meyjar
höfðu hreinliga
sál af synðum þvegit
manna þeira,
er á morgun- degi
pína sjálfa sik.
Helgar meyar | haufþo hreinliga | sal af sindom þueigit | maɴa þeiRa || er a maurgom deigi | pyna sealfa sik
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Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 73: AI, 639, BI, 647, Skald I, 315; Bugge 1867, 368, Falk 1914, 45, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 21, Fidjestøl 1979, 70, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 98, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 79, 144.
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