Ólhv Thómdr 1III
Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, Thómasdrápa 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 301.
text and translation
Þér fremisk þí með tíri;
þú est næst guði hæstum.
Þí fremisk þér með tíri; þú est næst guði hæstum.
‘Thus you gain distinction with glory; you are nearest to God the highest.’
notes and context
The author of FoGT gives this and the following stanza as examples of the rhetorical figure of apostrophe addressed to saints: Sama figvra er ok, ef maðr talar til heilagra manna, sem olafr qvað … ‘It is also the same figure, if one addresses saints, as Óláfr said …’
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 242 fol (W) — 113/12 - 113/13
imagesÞer fremiz þi með tiri þv ert| næst gvði hæstvm.
(MCR)
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AM 761 a 4°x (761ax) — 84r/2 - 84r/3
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