Anon Sól 39VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 39’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 322-3.
text and translation
Sól ek sá sanna dagstjörnu
drjúpa dynheimum í;
en heljar grind heyrða ek annan veg
þjóta þungliga.
Ek sá sól, sanna dagstjörnu, drjúpa í dynheimum; en annan veg heyrða ek grind heljar þjóta þungliga.
‘I saw the sun, the true day-star, bow down in the noisy world; and in the other direction I heard the gate of Hell roaring weightily.’
notes and context
This st. is the first of a series of anaphoric sts (39-45), beginning Sól ek sá ‘I saw the sun’. The significance of the sun in these sts is disputed: Falk 1914, 22 interprets it as symbolising Christ; Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 42 sees it as the actual sun, seen with the narrator’s dying eyes. Paasche 1948, 181 argues that the sun is to be interpreted on both naturalistic and symbolic levels, an argument broadly endorsed by Fidjestøl 1979, 46.
readings
- [2] sanna dagstjörnu: samað at stjörnu 738ˣ
- [3] drjúpa: drúpa 2797ˣ
- [3] dynheimum í: so 738ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, ‘dimheimuṁ i’ or ‘dinheimum i’ 166bˣ, ‘dyrheimum i’ papp15ˣ, ‘i dynheimum’ 214ˣ
- [4] heljar grind: so 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, helgrind 166bˣ, heljar grund papp15ˣ
- [5] heyrða: so papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 1441ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, ‘hedi’ 166bˣ, heyrði 214ˣ
- [5] ek: om. 214ˣ
- [5] annan: á annan papp15ˣ, 2797ˣ
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 166 b 8°x (166bx) — 47r/4 - 47r/5
Sól ek sá
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sanna dagstjörnu
drjúpa †dimheimuṁ i† ;
en helgrind
†hedi† ek annan veg
þjóta þungliga. -
Holm papp 15 8°x (papp15x) — 4v - 4v
Sól ek sá
sanna dagstjörnu
drjúpa †dyrheimum i† ;
en heljar grund
heyrða ek á annan veg
þjóta þungliga. -
AM 738 4°x (738x) — 81v/28 - 81v/31
Sól ek sá
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samað at stjörnu
drjúpa dynheimum í;
en heljar grind
heyrða ek annan veg
þjóta þungliga. -
Lbs 214 4°x (214x) — 150v - 150v
Sól ek sá
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sanna dagstjörnu
drjúpa †i dynheimum† ;
en heljar grind
heyrði annan veg
þjóta þungliga. -
Lbs 1441 4°x (1441x) — 584 - 584
Sól ek sá
sanna dagstjörnu
drjúpa dynheimum í;
en heljar grind
heyrða ek annan veg
þjóta þungliga. -
BLAdd 10575 IIx (10575x) — 6r - 6r
Sól ek sá
sanna dagstjörnu
drjúpa dynheimum í;
en heljar grind
heyrða ek annan veg
þjóta þungliga.Sol ek sa | saɴa dagstiaurno | driupa dynheimom i | eɴ heliar grind | heirþak aɴan ueg | þiota þungliga
(TW)
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Lbs 2797 4°x (2797x) — 234 - 234
Sól ek sá
sanna dagstjörnu
drúpa dynheimum í;
en heljar grind
heyrða ek á annan veg
þjóta þungliga. -
NKS 1109 folx (1109x) — 491 - 491
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editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 39: AI, 634, BI, 641-2, Skald I, 312; Bugge 1867, 363, Falk 1914, 19, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 14, Fidjestøl 1979, 65, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 70-1, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 45, 117.
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