Anon Heil 6VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra manna drápa 6’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 877-8.
Mörg ár þoldi miklar sorgir
meinað líf í slíkum greinum;
hárklæði frá eg huldur væri
holdi næst, en brek eru goldin.
Pelli nam hann og prúðu gulli
að prýða sig fyr augum lýða;
heimi liet á hverjum tíma
hafnað alls í drottins nafni.
Mörg ár þoldi meinað líf miklar sorgir í slíkum greinum; eg frá huldur væri hárklæði næst holdi; en brek eru goldin. Fyr augum lýða nam hann að prýða sig pelli og prúðu gulli; á hverjum tíma liet alls hafnað heimi í nafni drottins.
For many years his [self]-tormented life endured great afflictions in such ways; I heard [that] he wore [lit. he was covered with] a hair-shirt closest to his body; but transgressions are paid for. Before the eyes of the people he adorned himself with velvet and beautiful gold; every time he completely rejected the world in the name of the Lord.
Mss: 720a VI(1r)
Editions: Skj AII, 512, Skj BII, 564, Skald II, 309, NN §§1767, 1768, 2807A, 2889; Kahle 1898, 91, 112.
Notes: [1-2]: These ll. may also be construed ‘For many years he endured a tormented life, great afflictions in such ways’. — [2] greinum (f. dat. pl.) ‘ways’: lit. ‘parts’ or ‘divisions’. — [6] að (inf. marker) ‘to’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) and Kock (Skald) omit að; see, however, NN §1767. — [8] alls ‘completely’: Here, as suggested by NN §1768, interpreted as an adv.; Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) interprets it as a substantivised adj. and reads ll. 7-8 as follows: á hverjum tíma lét hafnat heimi í nafni drottins alls ‘every time he rejected the world in the name of the Lord of everything’.
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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