Anon Heil 21VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra manna drápa 21’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 887.
Kóngrinn rieð með sætleik syngja,
svikarinn ..... …
síðan ... lagði hann sjóla prúðum
sverði í brjóst … herðar.
Knútur má nú kristni veita
kallaz hann … Danmörk …
… og hjálpin feska;.....
herrans dýrð mun aldri þverra.
Kóngrinn rieð syngja með sætleik, svikarinn … síðan lagði hann sverði í brjóst prúðum sjóla … herðar. Knútur má nú veita kristni … hann kallaz Danmörk … og feska hjálpin; dýrð herrans mun aldri þverra.
The king sang sweetly, the traitor … later he he thrust the sword through the chest of the magnificent king … shoulders. Knútr can now grant Christianity … he is called Denmark … and good help; the glory of the Lord will never end.
Mss: 720a VI(2v), 399a-bˣ
Readings: [1] rieð með sætleik syngja: hardly visible 720a VI [2] svikarinn …: hardly visible 720a VI, ‘[...]’ 399a‑bˣ [3] síðan: hardly visible 720a VI, ‘[...]’ 399a‑bˣ; prúðum: prúðu 399a‑bˣ [4] í brjóst … herðar: ‘[...]’ 399a‑bˣ [5] Knútur: hardly visible 720a VI, ‘[...]’ 399a‑bˣ; veita: neita 399a‑bˣ [6] kallaz: kallar 399a‑bˣ; hann … Danmörk …: ‘han [...]mork [...]’ 720a VI, ‘[...]’ 399a‑bˣ [8] þverra: illegible 720a VI, (þverra) 399a‑bˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 515, Skj BII, 567-8, Skald II, 311, NN §§3379, 3380; Kahle 1898, 95, 113.
Notes: [2]: To Kahle (1898, 95) ‘...ril um’ was visible after svikarinn. ‘The traitor’, viz. Eyvindr bifra. — [4]: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) and Kock (Skald) conjecture og út um herðar ‘and out through the shoulders’. — [6]: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) and Kock (Skald; NN §3380) propose kallaz hann um Danmörk alla ‘he is called over all Denmark’. — [7]: Kock (Skald; NN §3380) supplies horsklig vörn ‘wise defence’ to fill the lacuna at the beginning of the l.
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.
- Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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