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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
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Note to stanza

3. Anonymous Lausavísur, 2. Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise, 32 [Vol. 3, 609]

[1-4]: The sense and syntactic arrangement of the words in the first helmingr have been the subject of some editorial differences. It is assumed here, with Björn Magnússon Ólsen (FoGT 1884, 282) and Longo (FoGT 2004, 142-3 and 210-11), that the first helmingr represents the Biblical King and Psalmist David as a penitent sinner, who died and spent time in the grave as a punishment for his sins before being released at the Last Judgement. The second helmingr is then represented in direct speech as what he sang from the grave in praise of God’s righteousness. For the common medieval representation of David as a type of the penitent sinner, see Gamlkan Has 48-9VII and Notes to those stanzas.

references

FoGT 1884 = Björn Magnússo… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon FoGT 32, n. 1-4 (SkP 3)

FoGT 2004 = Longo, Michele… ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon FoGT 32, n. 1-4 (SkP 3)

Gamlkan Has 48 ∙ is referred to in ∙ Anon FoGT 32, n. 1-4 (SkP 3)

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