Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur II 18’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 713-14.
Manna hjálp og miskunn
mátti eigi hrings gátt
leingr fyrir lífsangr
láta bera sinn grát,
svá að í limu líkams
litr kom og fagrt vit;
sendiz aftr sæl önd;
sveini gaf það mey hrein.
{Hjálp og miskunn manna} mátti eigi leingr láta {gátt hrings} bera grát sinn fyrir lífsangr, svá að litr og fagrt vit kom í limu líkams; sæl önd sendiz aftr; hrein mey gaf sveini það.
‘The help and mercy of men [= Mary] could no longer let the door-frame of the ring [WOMAN] endure her weeping because of her life-woe, so that colour and sweet consciousness came into the limbs of the body; the blessed spirit was sent back; the pure Virgin gave that to the boy.’
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†Mána† hjálp og miskunn
mátti eigi hrings gátt
leingr fyrir lífsangri
láta vera sinn grát,
†[...]† að í limu líkams
litr kom og fagrt vit;
sendiz aftr sæl önd;
sveini gaf það mey hrein.
Maria hialp ok myskunn | matti eigi hringa gatt | leingur fyrer lifs angur | lata bera sinn grat: | so at i limu likams || litur kom ok fagurt vit | sendizt aptur sæl o᷎nd | sueine gaf þat mey hrein. |
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Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 5]. En digt om et andet Maria-jærtegn 18: AII, 495, BII, 536, Skald II, 294, NN §1696, Metr. §14B; Kahle 1898, 41, Sperber 1911, 13, Wrightson 2001, 63.
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