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Anon Pét 6VII

David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 6’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 8001.

Anonymous PoemsPétrsdrápa
567

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Brott ryði þyrni þiettum
þjósts sármeiddu brjósti
mær og móðir dýrust
Máría guðs váru.
Önd með hjálpar hendi
heilagr stjörnudeilir
seði og sæmdum greiði
siðsterkan brag verkum.

Máría, mær og dýrust móðir guðs, ryði brott þiettum þyrni þjósts sármeiddu brjósti váru. {Heilagr stjörnudeilir} seði önd með hendi hjálpar og greiði siðsterkan brag sæmdum verkum.
 
‘May Mary, maid and most precious mother of God, clear away the dense thorn-bush of rage from our [my] sorely injured breast. May the holy star-ruler [= God] satisfy the soul with the hand of help, and deliver the faith-strong poem with celebrated deeds.

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Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 7]. En drape om apostlen Peder 6: AII, 501, BII, 546, Skald II, 299, NN §§1714, 3372; Konráð Gíslason 1860, 557, Kahle 1898, 79, 109.

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