Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 4’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 481-2.
Oss fel þú lastalausa,
líkn vel kend, á hendi,
komin upp á hæð himna,
hjálp mín, syni þínum.
Hrittu öllum ótta
undirgrefti og heiftum
flærða hart af fyrðum
fáröflugra djöfla.
Fel þú oss lastalausa á hendi syni þínum, vel kend líkn, hjálp mín, komin upp á hæð himna. Hrittu öllum ótta, undirgrefti og heiftum fáröflugra djöfla flærða hart af fyrðum.
‘Entrust us, free from faults, into the hand of your son, well-known mercy, my help, come up to the height of the heavens. Drive all fear, undermining and the malevolence of anger-strong devils of deceits forcefully away from men.’
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.
Oss fel þú lastalausa,
líkn vel kend, á hendi,
komin upp á hæð himna,
†híalpmín† , syni þínum.
Hrittu öllum ótta
undirgrefti og heiftum
flærða hart af fyrðum
fáröflugra djöfla.
Oss fel þu lasta lausa likn vel kennd a hende | komin upp á hęd himna híalpmín[1] sýne þinum hríttu o᷎llum ótta vnndergrepti ok heíptum flęr– | da hart af fyrdum faro᷎flugra dio᷎fla.
(EB)
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 1]. En drape om jomfru Maria (Máríudrápa) 4: AII, 464, BII, 497, Skald II, 271, NN §§1636, 2669A; Konráð Gíslason 1860, 555, Rydberg 1907, 32-3, 54, Attwood 1996a, 103, 303.
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