George S. Tate (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Líknarbraut 44’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 280.
‘Ér meguð undir stórar
yðars græðis sjá blæða;
þær eru sýnt, þó at sárar,
saklausum mér vaktar,
mín því at mildi raunar
mest ok yðrir lestir
veldr því, at verða skyldi
vísi lýðs fyr píslum.
‘Ér meguð sjá yðars græðis stórar undir blæða; þær eru, þó at sárar, sýnt vaktar mér saklausum, því at raunar veldr mest mín mildi ok yðrir lestir því, at vísi lýðs skyldi verða fyr píslum.
‘‘You may see your healer’s great wounds bleed; they are, though grievous, clearly dealt me guiltless, for in reality my mercy and your sins most cause it, that the prince of the people should be subjected to torments.’
[1-3]: The first three ll. are septasyllabic; ll. 5 and 7 would be without elision.
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‘Ér meguð undir stórar
yðars græðis sjá blæða;
þær eru sýnt, þó at sárar,
saklausum mér vaktar,
mín †[...]t† mildi raunar
mest ok yðrir lestir
veldr því, at verða skyldi
†visí† lýðs fyr píslum.
Ér megut vnnder storar ýduars gre᷎diss sía ble᷎da þe᷎r eru sýnt þótt sárar saklausum mer vaktar | mín [...]t millde raunar mest ok ýdrer lester velldr þuí at verda skyllde visí lýds fir pislum. |
(GST)
‘Ér meguð undir stórar
yðars græðis sjá blæða;
þær eru sýnt, þó at sárar,
saklausum mér vaktar,
mín því at mildi raunar
mest ok yðrir lestir
veldr því, at verða skyldi
vist lýðs fyr píslum.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XIII], C. 1. Líknarbraut 44: AII, 158, BII, 172, Skald II, 90, NN §§1400, 2332; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 48-9, Rydberg 1907, 18-19, 52, Tate 1974, 89.
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