Anon Vitn 10VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Vitnisvísur af Máríu 10’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 746-7.
Brátt nam mikill að mætti
meyjar faðir að deyja;
tóku tígn og ríki
tiggja frændr að þiggja.
Eftir erfðaskifti
óttaz konungsins dóttir
mein og meðferð sína
— minkaz auðr — í nauðum.
Brátt nam faðir meyjar, mikill að mætti, að deyja; frændr tiggja tóku að þiggja tígn og ríki. Eftir erfðaskifti óttaz dóttir konungsins mein og meðferð sína í nauðum; auðr minkaz.
Suddenly the maiden’s father, great in power, died; the ruler’s kinsmen received rank and realm. After the division of inheritance the king’s daughter fears trouble and her treatment in distress [lit. distresses]; her wealth diminishes.
Mss: 713(84), 721(12r)
Readings: [3] tóku: ‘tro’(?) 721 [6] dóttir: so 721, dróttir 713
Editions: Skj AII, 484, Skj BII, 522, Skald II, 286, NN §3358A; Kahle 1898, 51-2, Sperber 1911, 25, 70, Wrightson 2001, 31.
Notes: [6] konungsins ‘the king’s’: Skj B emends to kóngsins ‘the king’s’ to avoid the sequence of three short syllables, and Skald retains the ms. form (see NN §3358A). The noun is abbreviated as ‘konungsens’ (713) and ‘konungíns’ (721). See Note to 4/4 above. — [7] meðferð ‘treatment’: See Fritzner: meðferð 3. The word could also allude to how she might behave in distress.
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.
- Sperber, Hans, ed. 1911. Sechs isländische Gedichte legendarischen Inhalts. Uppsala Universitets årsskrift, filosofi, språkvetenskap och historiska vetenskaper 2. Uppsala: Akademische Buchdruckerei Edv. Berling.
- Wrightson, Kellinde, ed. 2001. Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Verse on the Virgin Mary: Drápa af Maríugrát, Vitnisvísur af Maríu, Maríuvísur I-III. Viking Society for Northern Research Text Series 14. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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