Nú hefi eg út fyrir ýtum
— intag svá, að minti —
inta jartegn eina
alhróðigs guðs móður.
Veittu, Máría, meiri
miskunn, en vier kunnum
oss, þá er andir missum,
iðröndum guð biðja.
Nú hefi eg inta eina jartegn móður alhróðigs guðs út fyrir ýtum; intag svá, að minti. Máría, veittu meiri miskunn, en vier kunnum biðja guð oss iðröndum, þá er missum andir.
Now I have told one miracle of the mother of all-glorious God [= Mary] to the end before the people; I composed it thus, so that it should be remembered. Mary, grant more mercy than we are able to ask God for us penitents, when we give up our spirits.
[2] intag svá að minti: ‘þitt [...]at mintí’ 721, ‘ynítt sem m . at ṃịntí’ 1032ˣ
[2] intag svá að minti ‘I composed it thus, so that it should be remembered’ (lit. ‘I composed it thus, so that it should remind’)’: The l. is damaged and cannot be reconstructed. The initial syllable in 721 (þitt [n. nom. or acc. sg.] ‘your’) is unmetrical because it does not alliterate. Skj B leaves the l. incomplete and untranslated (… minti). Kock (Skald; NN §1691) suggests: innit þitt mik minti ‘your temple I remember’. This reading is ungrammatical, because the verb minna ‘remember’ takes the acc. of person and gen. of the thing. Furthermore, minti ‘remembered’ is in the pret. and the conj. að ‘that’ is unaccounted for. Wrightson reads þitt sem það minti ‘your ... as I remembered it’, which is both ungrammatical and unmetrical.