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Anonymous Poems (Anon)

Kviðuháttr verses in praise of a Norwegian ruler (TGT 3) - 0

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Lilja (‘Lily’) — Anon LilVII

Martin Chase 2007, ‘(Introduction to) Anonymous, Lilja’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 544-677.

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Skj: Eysteinn Ásgrímsson: Lilja (AII, 363-95, BII, 390-416)

SkP info: VII, 587-8

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21 — Anon Lil 21VII

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Cite as: Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Lilja 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 587-8.

Heimr er dauðr, en hvað er til ráða?
Hvar gietr þann, er sier megi bjarga?
Hvergi, því að í synda saurgan
sannliga, hverr að þyngir annan.
Eitt er til, það er eg skal vátta,
— á eg grátandi frammi að standa —
attú sjálfr, inn dýri drottinn,
dugir nú ferð, svá lífguð verði.

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The world is dead, and what remedy is there? Where is to be found the one who can save himself? Nowhere, because in the defilement of sins truly [it is] that each weighs down the other. There is one thing to be done, that which I shall attest — I must stand forth weeping —, that you yourself, the dear Lord, will now help mankind, so that it may be revived.

notes: The theme and diction of this st. (dauðr ‘dead’, bjarga ‘save’, saurgan synda ‘defilement of sins’) are reminiscent of st. 76.

editions: Skj Eysteinn Ásgrímsson: Lilja 21 (AII, 370; BII, 396); Skald II, 215.

sources

Holm perg 1 fol (Bb) 114ra, 28 - 114ra, 33  transcr.  image  image  
AM 720 a VIII 4° (720a VIII) 2r, 27 - 2v, 2  transcr.  image  image  
AM 99 a 8° (99a) 5r, 6 - 5r, 14  transcr.  image  image  
AM 622 4° (622) 26, 23 - 27, 2  transcr.  image  
AM 713 4° (713) 7, 26 - 7, 29  transcr.  image  image  
Vísnabók (Vb) 248 - 248  
DKNVSB 41 8°x (41 8°x) 111, 5 - 111, 11  transcr.  image  
AM 705 4°x (705x) 6v - 6v  transcr.  
BLAdd 4892 (4892) 27v - 27v  transcr.  image  

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