Matthew Townend (ed.) 2012, ‘Þórarinn loftunga, Glælognskviða 7’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 872.
En þar upp
af altári
Kristi þæg
kerti brenna.
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalauss
sôlu borgit.
En þar brenna kerti, þæg Kristi, upp af altári. Svá hefr synðalauss Ôleifr borgit sôlu, áðr andaðisk.
‘And there candles burn, acceptable to Christ, up from the altar. So has the sinless Óláfr saved his soul before he died.’
See Context to st. 2 above.
This stanza is marked by the presence of new, ecclesiastical vocabulary, unrecorded in any prior extant Old Norse sources; see Notes below.
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.
Eɴ þar up | af altare | cristi þæg | kerti breɴa | sva hefir Olafr | aðr hann aɴdaþiz | syndalꜹs |sálo borgit |
(DW)
En þar upp
af altári
Kristi †[…]g†
kerti brenna.
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalauss
sôlu borgit.
En þar | vpp af alltari cristi [...]g kerti brenna sva hefir | olafr aþr hann andadiz synda laus salu borgit
(VEÞ)
En þar upp
af †allteri†
Kristi þæg
kerti brenna.
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalauss
sôlu borgit.
En þar upp
af altári
Kristi þæg
kerti brenna.
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalauss
sôlu brugðit.
En þar upp
af altári
Kristi þæg
kerti brenna.
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalauss
sôlu brugðit.
en þar upp af alltari | kristi þæg kerti brenna. sva hefir olafr adr ⸌hann⸍ andadiz. syndalꜹss | salu brugdit
(VEÞ)
En þar
af altári
Kristi þæg
kerti brenna.
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalausan
slum borgit.
†[…]†
†[…]†
†[…]†
†[…]na† .
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalauss
sôlu borgit.
En þar upp
af altári
Kristi †kier†
kerti brenna.
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalauss
sôlu borgit.
En þar upp
af altári
Kristi þæg
kerti brenna.
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalauss
slum borgit.
En þar af upp
af altári
Kristi þæg
kerti brenna.
Svá hefr Ôleifr,
áðr andaðisk,
synðalauss
slum borgit.
Skj: Þórarinn loftunga, 3. Glælognskviða 7: AI, 326, BI, 301, Skald I, 153; Hkr 1893-1901, II, 520, IV, 175, ÍF 27, 408 (ÓHHkr ch. 245); ÓH 1941, I, 604 (ch. 245), Flat 1860-8, II, 377; Magerøy 1948, 12, 17, 27-8.
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