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.
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.’
Mss: 713(83), 721(12r)
Readings: [1] anzaði: ‘amadí’ 713, ‘[...]adi’ 721 [3] aungum: ‘o᷎gum’ 721
Editions: Skj AII, 484, Skj BII, 521, Skald II, 286; Kahle 1898, 51, 102, Sperber 1911, 24, 70, Wrightson 2001, 30.
Notes: [2-3] eg þori enn að segja slíkt fyrir aungum manni ‘I do not yet dare to say such a thing before any person’: Lit. this translates as: ‘I dare yet to say such a thing before no person’. — [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’. — [6] ef þau bæri ‘if they would testify’: Lit. ‘if they would bear [witness]’.
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