Anon Sól 75VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 75’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 349.
text and translation
Inn mátki faðir, inn mæzti sonr,
heilagr andi himins!
Þik bið ek skilja, sem skapat hefr,
oss alla eymðum frá.
Inn mátki faðir, inn mæzti sonr, heilagr andi himins! Ek bið þik, sem hefr skapat, skilja oss alla frá eymðum.
‘Mighty Father, most glorious Son, Holy Spirit of heaven! I ask you who have created [us] to release us all from miseries.’
notes and context
There are a number of metrical and alliterative irregularities affecting this st., as it is presented in 166bˣ and other early modern mss. Probably as a result of scribal awareness of these irregularities, several later mss present texts that correct them, and these readings have been adopted here, in ll. 2, 4 and 6. — [2]: 166bˣ’s ‘mestr sonr’ is unmetrical; adopting the weak form of the adj., preceded by the def. art. inn, restores metrical regularity to the l.
readings
- [2] inn: om. all
- [2] mæzti: so 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ, mestr 166bˣ, papp15ˣ, 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ, 214ˣ, 1441ˣ
- [3] heilagr: H. 166bˣ
- [4] bið: biðr papp15ˣ, 2797ˣ
- [4] ek: om. papp15ˣ
- [4] skilja: so 214ˣ, 2797ˣ, leysa all others
- [5] sem: er 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ
- [5] skapat: skapat corrected from ‘spapad’ 214ˣ
- [6] eymðum: so 214ˣ, 2797ˣ, synðum all others
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) — 48r/24 - 48r/25
Inn mátki faðir,
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mestr sonr,
H. andi himins!
Þik bið ek skilja,
sem skapat hefr,
oss alla eymðum frá. -
Holm papp 15 8°x (papp15x) — 7r - 7v
Inn mátki faðir,
mestr sonr,
heilagr andi himins!
Þik biðr skilja,
sem skapat hefr,
oss alla eymðum frá. -
AM 738 4°x (738x) — 83r/35 - 83r/38
Inn mátki faðir,
images
mestr sonr,
heilagr andi himins!
Þik bið ek skilja,
sem skapat hefr,
oss alla eymðum frá. -
AM 167 b 6 8°x (167b 6x) — 4r/10 - 4r/13
Inn mátki faðir,
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mestr sonr,
heilagr andi himins!
Þik bið ek skilja,
sem skapat hefr,
oss alla eymðum frá. -
Lbs 214 4°x (214x) — 152r - 152r
Inn mátki faðir,
images
mestr sonr,
heilagr andi himins!
Þik bið ek skilja,
er skapat hefr,
oss alla eymðum frá. -
Lbs 1441 4°x (1441x) — 587 - 587
Inn mátki faðir,
mestr sonr,
heilagr andi himins!
Þik bið ek skilja,
sem skapat hefr,
oss alla eymðum frá. -
BLAdd 10575 IIx (10575x) — 10v - 10v
Inn mátki faðir,
mæzti sonr,
heilagr andi himins!
Þik bið ek skilja,
er skapat hefr,
oss alla eymðum frá.Hiɴ maTki faþir | mezi sonr | helgr andi himins | þik biþ ek leisa | er skapat hefir | os aLa sindom fra
(TW)
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Lbs 2797 4°x (2797x) — 237 - 237
Inn mátki faðir,
mæzti sonr,
heilagr andi himins!
Þik biðr ek skilja,
er skapat hefr,
oss alla eymðum frá. -
NKS 1109 folx (1109x) — 499 - 499
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editions and texts
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 75: AI, 639, BI, 647, Skald I, 315; Bugge 1867, 368-9, Falk 1914, 5, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 22, Fidjestøl 1979, 70, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 99, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 81, 145.
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