Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur II 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 705.
Erfingja ógndjarfr
aungvan við gullspaung
gietið hafði; góðlátr
gjarna vildi ala barn.
Hennar í hvert sinn
harmr tók að gjöraz armr,
önnur þá er frúin fann
fljóðin plaga sín jóð.
Ógndjarfr hafði aungvan erfingja gietið við {gullspaung}; góðlátr vildi gjarna ala barn. Armr harmr hennar tók að gjöraz í hvert sinn, þá er frúin fann önnur fljóðin plaga jóð sín.
‘The battle-brave one had begotten no heir with the gold-clasp [WOMAN]; the good-natured man wanted very much to have a child. Her miserable grief started to arise every time when the lady saw the other women nursing their offspring.’
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Erfíngia o᷎gn díarfur . || aunguan uid gullspaung . getít hafdí godlatur . gíarna vílldí ala barn . | hennar j huert sínn . harmur tok at gíorazt armur . aunnur þa er fruínn fann | fliodin plaga sín od .// |
(EB)
Erfingja ógndjarfr
aungvan með gullsspaung
gietið hafði; góðlátr
gjarna vildi ala barn.
Hennar í hvert sinn
harmr tók að gjöraz armr,
önnur þá er frúin fann
fljóðin plaga sín jóð.
Erfingia o᷎gndiarfur | aungvan vid gullspaung | getit hafdi godlatur | giarna villdi ala barn: || hennar i i[1] huert sinn | harmur tok at giorazt armur | aunnur þa er fruinn fann | fliodin plaga sin iod. |
(EB)
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 5]. En digt om et andet Maria-jærtegn 5: AII, 492-3, BII, 533-4, Skald II, 292, NN §3361; Kahle 1898, 38, Sperber 1911, 10, Wrightson 2001, 57.
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