Gamlkan Has 16VII
Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 16’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 87-8.
text and translation
Hefr, at hvern of rifjak,
harri minn, til fjarri,
grandi firðr, þanns gerðak
geig, es sék þik eigi,
elsku kuðr, alls yðvarr,
ǫðlingr, hefik, rǫðla,
aumligr þræll í ǫllum
afgerðum mik vafðan.
Hefr til fjarri, at of rifjak hvern geig, þanns gerðak, es sék þik eigi, harri minn, grandi firðr, alls, yðvarr aumligr þræll, hefik mik vafðan í ǫllum afgerðum, {ǫðlingr rǫðla}, elsku kuðr.
‘It is far [from the case] that I can enumerate every injury that I have committed when I do not see you, my Lord, removed from sin, since I, your wretched servant, have wrapped myself in all [kinds of] misdeeds, prince of heavenly bodies [= God], renowned for love.’
notes and context
readings
- [1] rifjak: ‘rifiat’ B
- [3] þanns: þann B
- [3] gerðak (‘gǫrdag’): so 399a‑bˣ, BFJ, ‘go᷎r[...]’ B
- [7] aumligr: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘aumle[...]’ B
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 757 a 4° (B) — 12v/22 - 12v/24
imagesHefr, at hvern of †rifiat†,
harri minn, til fjarri,
grandi firðr, þann †go᷎r[...]†
geig, es sék þik eigi,
elsku kuðr, alls yðvarr,
ǫðlingr, hefik, rǫðla,
†aumle[...]† þræll í ǫllum
afgerðum mik vafðan.Hefer at huern of rifiat harre minn til fiarre grande firdr þann go᷎r… | dag geíg er ek þik sé eigi elsku kuðr allz yduarr o᷎ðlinngr hefí ek ro᷎dla aumle… þręll | í o᷎llum afgerdum mik vafdan.
(EB)
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Lbs 444 4°x (444x)
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JS 399 a-b 4°x (399a-bx)
Hefr, at hvern of rifjak,
harri minn, til fjarri,
grandi firðr, þanns gerðak
geig, es sék þik eigi,
elsku kuðr, alls yðvarr,
ǫðlingr, hefik, rǫðla,
aumligr þræll í ǫllum
afgerðum mik vafðan.
editions and texts
Skj: Gamli kanóki, 2. Harmsól 16: AI, 564, BI, 552, Skald I, 268; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 18, Kempff 1867, 5, Rydberg 1907, 23, Black 1971, 181, Attwood 1996a, 88, 225.
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