Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 10’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 302.
Munaðar ríki hefr margan tregat;
opt verðr kvalræði af konum;
meingar þær urðu, þótt inn mátki guð
skapaði skírliga.
Ríki munaðar hefr margan tregat; kvalræði verðr opt af konum; þær urðu meingar, þótt inn mátki guð skapaði skírliga.
‘The power of desire has brought many a man to grief; torment often stems from women; they become harmful, though the mighty God created them purely.’
The unreliability and harmfulness of women is a staple of gnomic poetry; cf. Hávm 84, Hsv 12, 105. — [6]: 167bˣ has a damaged leaf; ‘sk padi’ is supplied from the catchword of the preceding page.
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.
Mundar ríki
hefr margan tregat;
opt verðr kvalræði af konum;
meingar þær urðu,
þótt inn mátki guð
skapaði skírliga.
Mundar ríki
hefr margan tregat;
opt verðr kvalræði af konum;
meingar þær urðu,
þótt inn mátki guð
†sk padi [...]†.
Munaðar ríki
hefr margan tregat;
opt verðr kvalræði af konum;
meingar þær urðu,
þótt honum mátki guð
skapti skírliga.
Munaðar ríki
hefr margan tregat;
opt verðr kvalræði af konum;
meingar þær urðu,
þótt inn mátki guð
skapaði skírliga.
Munaðar ríki
hefr margan tregat;
opt verða kvalræði af konum;
meingar þær urðu,
þótt inn mátki guð
skapti skírliga.
Munaþar riki | hefir margan tregat | opt uerþa kualręþı af konum | meingar þęr urþo | þo iɴ maTki Guþ | skapti skirliga
(TW)
Munaðar ríki
hefr margan tregat;
opt verðr kvalræði af konum;
meingar þær urðu,
þótt inn mátki guð
skapti skírliga.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 10: AI, 629, BI, 637, Skald I, 309; Bugge 1867, 358, Falk 1914, 5, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 8, Fidjestøl 1979, 61, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 50, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 16, 96.
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