Anon Heil 17^VII

Myrkrastofu fekk meistari klerka;
minntiz þessa nökkur kvinna;
Blásíum fann með björtu ljósi
brúðr og færði vistir prúðar.
Ýtum bað hann þeim alt gott veita
eining guðs, er minning neina
gerðu honum til gleði og dýrðar;
guð játar það framm að láta.

{Meistari klerka} fekk myrkrastofu; nökkur kvinna minntiz þessa; brúðr fann Blásíum með björtu ljósi og færði prúðar vistir. Hann bað {eining guðs} veita ýtum þeim, er gerðu honum neina minning til gleði og dýrðar, alt gott; guð játar að láta það framm.

{The teacher of clerics} [BISHOP] was imprisoned; a certain woman remembered him; the woman found Blaise with a bright light and brought fine food. He asked {the unity of God} [TRINITY] to grant those men, who gave him any commemoration with happiness and glory, everything good; God promises to effect that.

Mss: 720a VI(2r), 399a-bˣ

Readings: [2] minntiz: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘m[...]izt’ 720a VI    [8] framm: so 399a‑bˣ, frammi 720a VI

Editions: Skj AII, 514-15, Skj BII, 566-7, Skald II, 311, NN §2891; Kahle 1898, 94, 113.

Notes: [1] fekk myrkrastofu ‘was imprisoned’: Lit. ‘gained a room of darkness’; cf. Anon Pét 51/7-8, where the word for prison is myrkvastofa. — [2] minntiz ‘remembered’: To Finnur Jónsson (Skj A) the word, which he renders as ‘minnizt’, was visible. — [6] eining guðs ‘the unity of God’: A kenning for the Trinity; cf. Anon Lil 1/8 eining sönn í þrennum greinum ‘true unity in three parts’. — [6] neina (indefinite pron.) ‘any’: Kock (NN §2891) argues that neina is an adv. ‘usually’. — [8] framm: Lit. ‘forward’; Finnur Jónsson (Skj A) and Kock (Skald; NN §2891) read ‘fruinni’ (f. dat. sg.) ‘the woman’ (but Finnur Jónsson emends to framm in Skj B).

References

1. Bibliography
2. Skj A = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15a. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. A: Tekst efter håndskrifterne. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1967. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
3. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
4. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
5. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
6. Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
7. Internal references
8. David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 51’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 841-2.
9. Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Lilja 1’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 562-3.