Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 17’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 306-7.
Á sik þau trúðu ok þóttuz ein vera
allri þjóð yfir,
en þó leiz þeira hagr
annan veg almátkum guði.
Þau trúðu á sik ok þóttuz vera ein yfir allri þjóð, en þó leiz hagr þeira annan veg almátkum guði.
‘They trusted in themselves and thought that they alone were above all people, but yet their condition seemed quite different to almighty God.’
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.
Á sik þau trúðu
ok þóttuz ein
allri þjóð yfir,
en þó leiz
þeira hagr
annan veg almátkum guði.
Á sik þau trúðu
ok ein þóttuz
allri þjóð yfir,
en þó leiz
þeira hagr
annan veg almátkum guði.
Á sik þau trúðu
ok þóttuz ein
allri þjóð yfir,
en þó leiz
þeira hagr
annan veg almátkum guði.
Á sik þau trúðu
ok þóttuz ein
allri þjóð yfir,
en þó leiz
þeira hagr
annan veg almátkum guði.
A sik þau truþo | ok þoToz ein uera | aLri þioþ yfir | eɴ þo leitz þeiRa || hagr aɴan ueg | almaTkom Guþi
(TW)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 17: AI, 630, BI, 638, Skald I, 310, NN §2147B; Bugge 1867, 360, Falk 1914, 7, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 9, Fidjestøl 1979, 62, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 55, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 23, 102.
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