Anon Sól 31VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 31’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 316-17.
Úlfum líkir þykkja allir þeir,
sem eiga hverfan hug;
svá mun gefaz, þeim er ganga skal
þær inar glæddu götur.
Allir þeir, sem eiga hverfan hug, þykkja líkir úlfum; svá mun gefaz, þeim er skal ganga þær inar glæddu götur.
All those who have a changeable heart seem like wolves; it shall turn out thus for the one who has to tread the glowing-hot paths.
Mss: 166bˣ(46v), papp15ˣ(3v), 738ˣ(81r), 214ˣ(150r), 1441ˣ(583), 10575ˣ(5r), 2797ˣ(233)
Readings: [2] allir: vera allir 738ˣ [3] sem: sin papp15ˣ; eiga: hafa 1441ˣ, eigu 10575ˣ [4] mun: mun ok 738ˣ, man 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ [5] er: sem papp15ˣ, er corrected from sem 10575ˣ; skal: om. papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 632, Skj BI, 640, Skald I, 311; Bugge 1867, 362, Falk 1914, 14, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 12-13, Fidjestøl 1979, 64, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 64-5, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 37, 112.
Notes: [1] líkir úlfum ‘like wolves’: cf. Matt. VII.15: adtendite a falsis prophetis qui veniunt ad vos in vestimentis ovium intrinsecus autem sunt lupi rapaces ‘beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves’. — [6] inar glæddu götur ‘the glowing-hot paths’: Cf. st. 59 and Dugg (Cahill 1983, 25-6).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Fidjestøl, Bjarne, ed. 1979a. Sólarljóð: Tydning og Tolkningsgrunnlag. Nordisk Instituts skrifteserie 4. Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø: Universitetsforlaget.
- Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1915a. Sólarljóð: gefin út með skíringum og athugasemdum. Safn til sögu Íslands og íslenzkra bókmenta 5.1. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja Gutenberg.
- Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1867. Norrœn fornkvæði. Islandsk samling af folkelige oldtidsdigte om nordens guder og heroer. Almindelig kaldet Sæmundar Edda hins frøda. Christiania (Oslo): Malling. Rpt. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 1965.
- Cahill, Peter, ed. and trans. 1983. Duggals leiðsla. RSÁM A 25. Reykjavík: Stofnun Árna Magnússonar.
- Falk, Hjalmar, ed. 1914a. Sólarljóð. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter II. Hist.-filos. kl. 7. 2 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Njörður P. Njarðvik, ed. 1991. Sólarljóð. Útgáfa og umfjöllun. Íslensk Rit 10. Reykjavík: Bókmenntafræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands og Menningarsjóður.
- Njörður P. Njarðvik. 1993. Solsången. Akademisk avhandling för filosofiedoktorsexamen i nordiska språk. Göteborgs universitet: Institutionen för svensk språket.
- Dugg = Duggals leiðsla (see Cahill 1983)
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