Anon Heil 18VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra manna drápa 18’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 885.
Byskup* eftir bænir feskar
beiðir jarl til dráps að leiða;
höggið náði hann að þiggja
og hæstum sig gaf drottni kæstum.
Jartegnir, sem jafnan birtaz,
andi guðs á váru landi
unnið hefir fyr ástvin þenna
ótal manns til heilsubótar.
Jarl beiðir að leiða byskup* til dráps eftir feskar bænir; hann náði að þiggja höggið og gaf sig hæstum kæstum drottni. Guðs andi hefir unnið jartegnir, sem jafnan birtaz á váru landi fyr ástvin þenna til heilsubótar ótal manns.
The earl demands that the bishop be led to death after his beautiful prayers; he accepted the blow and gave himself to the highest dearest Lord. God’s spirit has worked miracles, which still are revealed in our country by means of this dear friend for the healing of a countless number of people.
Mss: 720a VI(2r), 399a-bˣ
Readings: [1] Byskup*: Byskupi 720a VI, Byskups 399a‑bˣ [4] hæstum: hæstan 720a VI, 399a‑bˣ; gaf: ‘g[...]’ 720a VI, með 399a‑bˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 515, Skj BII, 567, Skald II, 311, NN §§1767, 1771, 2156, Anm., 2889; Kahle 1898, 94, 113.
Notes: [4] og ‘and’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) and Kock (Skald) omit the word; see, however, NN §1767. — [4] gaf ‘gave’: The emendation is uncertain; in 720a VI there seem to be two letters following ‘sig’ that are no longer visible. — [5-8]: At least one example of a pilgrimage to a local shrine of Blaise, at Breiðholt, near Reykjavík, is mentioned in Þorláks saga (Jón Helgason 1978, 373), in which a man who had lost the power of speech vowed to give some oil to the saint (c. 1325).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Jón Helgason. 1978. Byskupa sǫgur. EA A 13, 2. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnaean Commission.
- Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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