Anon Líkn 28VII
George S. Tate (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Líknarbraut 28’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 258-9.
Heim laðar hvern frá dómi
himins fyrða til dýrðar
— gipt þrýtrat þá — gætir
glyggranns með sér dyggra;
en veglausum vísar
vándum lýð til fjánda
birtiranns at brenna
byrjar valdr of aldir.
{Gætir {glyggranns}} laðar hvern dyggra fyrða heim með sér frá dómi til himins dýrðar; gipt þrýtrat þá; en {valdr {birtiranns byrjar}} vísar veglausum vándum lýð til fjánda at brenna of aldir.
{The guardian {of the storm-house}} [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)] invites each of the faithful men home with him from the Judgement to heaven’s glory; grace will not fail then; but {the ruler {of the radiant house of the wind}} [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)] consigns the inglorious, wicked host to devils to burn forever.
Mss: B(11v), 399a-bˣ
Readings: [1] frá: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘[...]a’ B [2] til: ‘[...]’ B, ṭil 399a‑bˣ [4] glyggranns: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘g[...]ýggrannz’ B [6] vándum lýð: ‘vo᷎nnd[...]ýd’ B, ‘vo᷎nndụṃ ḷýð’ 399a‑bˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 155, Skj BII, 167, Skald II, 88; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 43-4, Rydberg 1907, 16, 50, Tate 1974, 73.
Notes: [All]: On the division of the multitudes at the Last Judgement, see Has 36-9 and the Icel. homily on All Saints (HómÍsl 1993, 21v; HómÍsl 1872, 45); the fullest ON account, based largely on Matt. XXV.32-46, is the ONorw. homily on Doomsday (HómNo, 168-71). — [1] laðar hvern ... heim frá dómi ‘invites each ... home from the Judgement’: Cf. Leið 45/5 and Lil 68/8. — [3-4] gætir glyggranns ‘guardian of the storm-house [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)]’: The source of glyggrann may be Mark Frag 1/2III where the glygg- : dygg- rhyme also occurs. The full kenning (with gætir) is repeated in Mdr 21/1. — [5] veglausum (m. dat. sg.) ‘inglorious’:
Possibly also ‘pathless, lacking the way’, appropriate given the poem’s emphasis on ‘way’: vegr (sometimes, as here, ambiguously ‘glory’ or ‘path’) and braut ‘way’, as in the title; i.e. those found to be without glory or honour are those who have abandoned ‘the way of grace’ (see Note to 51/4). — [6] vándum lýð ‘wicked host’: Restoration based upon 399a-bˣ; initial vowel (<o᷎> in B) adjusted for rhyme and sense by all eds.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Rydberg, Hugo, ed. 1907. ‘Die geistlichen Drápur und Dróttkvættfragmente des Cod. AM 757 4to.’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Lund. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Tate, George S. 1974. ‘Líknarbraut: A Skaldic Drápa on the Cross’. Ph.D. thesis. Cornell University. DAI 35:6112A.
- HómÍsl 1872 = Wisén, Theodor, ed. 1872. Homiliu-bók: Isländska homilier efter en handskrift från tolfte århundredet. Lund: Gleerup.
- HómÍsl 1993 = de Leeuw van Weenen, Andrea, ed. 1993. The Icelandic Homily Book: Perg. 15 4° in the Royal Library, Stockholm. Íslensk handrit/Icelandic Manuscripts Series in quarto 3. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar á Íslandi.
- HómNo = Indrebø, Gustav. 1931. Gamal norsk homiliebok, Cod. AM 619, 4°. Det norske historiske Kjeldeskrift Fond, Skrifter 54. Oslo: Dybwad. Rpt. 1966. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
- Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1844. Fjøgur gømul kvæði. Boðsrit til að hlusta á þá opinberu yfirheyrslu í Bessastaða Skóla þann 22-29 mai 1844. Viðeyar Klaustri: prentuð af Helga Helgasyni, á kostnað Bessastaða Skóla. Bessastaðir: Helgi Helgason.
- Internal references
- Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Leiðarvísan 45’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 178.
- Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 496.
- Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Lilja 68’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 639-40.
- Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 36’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 104-5.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Markús Skeggjason, Fragments 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 293.
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