Anon Heil 8VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra manna drápa 8’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 878-9.
Heilagt skutu þeir hold -
hild…-
saklaust blóð - var - síðar - miklu
…ði slegið af
Jésús Kristur - lofðung - ljósan
laðar til - sín - úr - þessi pínu;
Játmundi tiez Einglands kindar
elska sönn með guði og mönnum.
Þeir skutu heilagt hold ... saklaust blóð var miklu síðar ... slegið af ... Jésús Kristur laðar til sín ljósan lofðung úr þessi pínu; sönn elska kindar Einglands tiez Játmundi með guði og mönnum.
They shot the holy body ... innocent blood was much later ... beaten by ... Jesus Christ invites to him the shining king from this torment; true love of the offspring of England is shown to Edmund with God and men.
Mss: 720a VI(1v), 399a-bˣ
Readings: [2] hild…: ‘[...]’ 399a‑bˣ [3] síðar miklu: ‘sid[...]iclu’ 720a VI, ‘sid[...]’ 399a‑bˣ [4] …ði: ‘[...]’ 399a‑bˣ [7] kindar: hardly visible 720a VI [8] guði og mönnum: mönnum hardly visible 720a VI, gæði og munni 399a‑bˣ
Editions: Skj AII, 513, Skj BII, 564, Skald II, 309, NN §1769, 3378A; Kahle 1898, 92, 112.
Notes: [4] …ði: This should possibly be read ...di; Kock (Skald) supplies [sver]ði. — [8] mönnum (m. dat. pl.) ‘men’: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) suggests that the word here may mean ‘other holy men’.
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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