Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 35’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 319.
Glaðr at mörgu þótta ek gumnum vera,
þvít ek vissa fátt fyrir;
dularheim hefr dróttinn skapat
munafullan mjök.
Ek þótta gumnum vera glaðr at mörgu, þvít ek vissa fátt fyrir; dróttinn hefr skapat mjök munafullan dularheim.
‘I seemed to men to be happy at many a thing, because I knew little of what lay ahead; the Lord has created a worldof delusion very full of pleasures.’
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Glaðr at mörgu
þótta ek gumnum vera,
þvít ek vissa fátt fyrir;
dvalar-heim
hefr dróttinn skapat
munafullan mjök.
Glaðr at mörgu
þótta ek gumnum vera,
þvít ek vissa fátt fyrir;
dvalar-heim
hefr dróttinn skapat
munafullan mjök.
Glaðr at mörgu
þótta ek gumnum vera,
þvít ek vissa fátt fyrir;
dvalar-heim
hefr dróttinn skapat
munaþfullan mjök.
Glaðr at mörgu
þótta ek gumnum vera,
þvít ek vissa fátt fyrir;
dvalar-heim
hefr dróttinn skapat
munafullan mjök.
Glaþr at maurgo | þoTı ek gumnom uera | þui ek uissi faT fyri | dualar heim hefr | DroTin skapat | muna fuLan meok
(TW)
Glaðr at mörgu
þótta ek gumnum vera,
þvít ek vissa fátt fyrir;
dvalar-heim
hefr dróttinn skapat
munafullan mjök.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 35: AI, 633, BI, 641, Skald I, 312; Bugge 1867, 363, Falk 1914, 18, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 13, Fidjestøl 1979, 64, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 68, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 41, 114-5.
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