Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 83’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 357.
Dásamligt fræði var þér draumi kvadd,
en þú sázt it sanna;
fyrða engi var svá fróðr skapaðr,
er áðr hefði heyrt Sólarljóðs sögu.
Dásamligt fræði var kvadd þér draumi, en þú sázt it sanna; engi fyrða var skapaðr svá fróðr, er áðr hefði heyrt Sólarljóðs sögu.
‘Admirable advice was addressed to you in a dream, but you feared the truth; no man was created so wise that he would have heard ‘Sólarljóð’s’ tale before.’
This st. occurs in 32 mss though eds have usually rejected it as a later addition. Certainly it adds nothing to st. 82, but as Bugge observes, this is not an adequate reason for deleting it. It imposes on the poem the dream-framework common in literary and in later medieval visions (Dinzelbacher 1981, 229-65).
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Dásamligt fræði
var þér draumi í kvatt,
en þú sázt it sanna;
fyrða engi
var svá fróðr skapaðr,
er áðr heyrði Sólarljóðs sögu.
Dásamligt fræði
var þér í draumi kvadd,
en þú sátt it sanna;
fyrða engi
var svá fróðr of skapaðr,
er áðr heyrði Sólarljóðs sögu.
Dásamligt fræþi | var þer i dra[ili]v[/ili]mi kuadt | En þu satt iþ sanna | Ferþa eingi var | Sua froþr vm skapaþr | Er aþr heyrþi Solarlioþs | savgv
(TW)
Dásamligt fræði
var þér í draumi kvadd,
en þú sátt it sanna;
fyrða engi
var svá fróðr of skapaðr,
er áðr heyrði Sólarljóðs sögu.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [6]. Sólarljóð 83: AI, 640, Bugge 1867, 370, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 89.
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