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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Vitn 7VII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Vitnisvísur af Máríu 7’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 744-5.

Anonymous PoemsVitnisvísur af Máríu
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text and translation

Dreingr anzaði ungri:
‘Eg þori slíkt að segja
enn fyrir aungum manni’;
auðbrík svarar ríkust:
‘Víst eru váttar traustir
vel nær, ef þau bæri;
sitr hier móður mætrar
minn guð í knjám sinnar.’

Dreingr anzaði ungri: ‘Eg þori enn að segja slíkt fyrir aungum manni’; {ríkust auðbrík} svarar: ‘Víst eru traustir váttar vel nær, ef þau bæri; hier sitr guð minn í knjám mætrar móður sinnar.’
 
‘The man answered the young one: ‘I do not yet dare to say such a thing before any person’; the noblest wealth-plank [WOMAN] replies: ‘There are certainly trusty witnesses very near, if they would testify; here my God is sitting on the lap of his glorious mother.’

notes and context

[5-8]: Cf. the corresponding passage in Mar (1871, 303): þi at likneski varrar fru sancte Marie guds modur horfir i moti ockr, ok hennar blezadi son i kneam henni ‘because the effigy of Our Lady S. Mary, mother of God, is turned towards us, and her blessed son [is sitting] in her lap’.

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editions and texts

Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 3]. Vitnisvísur af Maríu 7: AII, 484, BII, 521, Skald II, 286; Kahle 1898, 51, 102, Sperber 1911, 24, 70, Wrightson 2001, 30.

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