Anon Heil 4VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra manna drápa 4’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 876.
Tómas, þá er vier týnum heimi,
treysti eg því, sá oss hefir leysta
þínar að fyr þýðar bænir
þiggi oss, er dauðir liggjum.
Dýrri prýðir
Tómas, þá er vier týnum heimi, treysti eg því, að sá hefir leysta oss, þiggi oss fyr þínar þýðar bænir, er liggjum dauðir. Dýrri prýðir.
Thomas, when we lose the world [i.e. our lives], I trust in it, that the one who has redeemed us will receive us because of your kind prayers when we lie dead. More glorious adorns ...
Mss: 720a VI(1r), 399a-bˣ
Readings: [1] þá: so 399a‑bˣ, sjá 720a VI [4] oss er: hardly visible 720a VI
Editions: Skj AII, 512, Skj BII, 563, Skald II, 308, NN §1766; Kahle 1898, 91, 112.
Notes: [5-8]: These ll. (except for the first two words of l. 5) are not included in 720a VI (and 399a-bˣ); a cross in the right margin of 720a VI draws attention to the omission. As medieval scribes regularly abbreviated repeated refrain helmingar and marked them with a cross in the margin, it is likely that the st. now numbered 4b was the last repeat of the poem’s first stef. If so, a considerable number of sts must have been lost, comprising the introduction (upphaf) and the first section of the stefjabálkr. — [5] prýðir: It cannot be determined if the word is the 3rd pers. sg. pres. of the verb prýða ‘adorn’ or the derived m. noun prýðir ‘that which makes something beautiful’.
References
- Bibliography
- 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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