Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Kálfr Hallsson, Kátrínardrápa 49’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 962.
Kátrín bið eg, að Kálfi veiti
kvæðislaun, er hleypr hin skæða
emjandi frá efsta dómi,
öflug, ferð með svörtum djöfli.
Greini og verndi gjörðir mínar
göfug Máría sólar jöfri
giftu fyld og guðdóms krafti;
græðarinn einn er henni æðri.
Eg bið, að öflug Kátrín veiti Kálfi kvæðislaun, er hin skæða ferð hleypr emjandi með svörtum djöfli frá efsta dómi. Göfug Máría, fyld giftu og krafti guðdóms, greini og verndi gjörðir mínar {jöfri sólar}; græðarinn einn er æðri henni.
‘I ask that powerful Catherine grant Kálfur [me] payment for the poem, when the dangerous host runs howling with the black devil from the Last Judgement. May the noble Mary, full of good fortune and the power of divinity, explain and defend my deeds to the king of the sun [= God (= Christ)]; only the Saviour is higher than she.’
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Katrín bid ec at kalfi veíte. kuædiꜱ laun er hleypr en | // skæda. emíandi fra efsta dome | o᷎flug ferd med suo᷎rtum diofle / greíne ok uerndi giordir minar. | go᷎fug maría solar ío᷎fre. giptu fylld ok guddomꜱ krapte. | grædarenn eínn er henne ædri. // |
(KW)
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 11]. Katrínar drápa 49: AII, 526, BII, 581, Skald II, 321; Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 235 (ll. 1-4), Kahle 1898, 77, 109, Sperber 1911, 54, 83.
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