Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 25’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 311-12.
Dísir bið þú þér dróttins mála
vera hollar í hugum;
viku eptir mun þér vilja þíns
alt at óskum gá.
Bið þú mála-dísir dróttins vera þér hollar í hugum; viku eptir mun alt gá þér at óskum vilja þíns.
‘Ask the confidential-dísir of the Lord to be gracious to you in their thoughts; one week later everything will go according to the desires of your will.’
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†dysi† bið þú þér
dróttins mála
vera hollar í hugum;
viku eptir
mun þér vilja þíns
at at óskum gá.
Dísir bið þú þér
dróttins mála
vera hollar í hugum;
viku eptir
mun þér vilja þíns
alt at †audnu† gá.
Dísir bið þú þér
dróttins mála
vera hollar í hugum;
viku eptir
mun þér vilja þíns
alt at †audnu† ganga.
†dysi† bið þú þér
dróttins mála
vera hollar í hugum;
viku eptir
mun þér vilja þíns
alt at †audnu† ganga.
†dysi† bið þú þér
dróttins mála
vera hollar í hugum;
viku eptir
mun þér vilja þíns
alt at óskum gá.
Dísir þú bið þér
dróttins mála
vera hollar í hugum;
viku eptir
mun þér vilja þíns
alt at öðru gá.
Dísir bið þú þér
dróttins mála
vera hollar í hugum;
viku eptir
man þér vilja þíns
alt at †audnu† gá.
Dysir biþ þu þer | DroTins mala | uera hollar i hugom | uiko eptir | man þer uilea þins | alt at auþno ga ||
(TW)
Dísir bið þú þér
dróttins mála
vera hollar í hugum;
viku eptir
man þér vilja þíns
alt at †audnu† gá.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 25: AI, 631, BI, 639, Skald I, 311; Bugge 1867, 361, Falk 1914, 13, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 11, Fidjestøl 1979, 63, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 61, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 31, 108-9.
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