Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Lausavísur, Stanzas from the Fourth Grammatical Treatise 6’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 578.
Sjálfráði dó síðan
sólar fróns að nóni,
sá er hiekk, en dag dökkti,
döglingr, á jarnnöglum.
{Döglingr {fróns sólar}}, sá er hiekk á jarnnöglum, dó síðan sjálfráði að nóni, en dag dökkti.
‘The king of the land of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)], who hung on iron nails, then died of his own volition at nones, and the day grew dark.’
This helmingr is cited as the first of two examples of the figure of chronographia, which FoGT defines thus: Cronographía er þat ef sagt er, ꜳ hverivm tíma tiðindin gerðvz, þav er hann vill fra segía ‘Chronographia is if it is specified as to what time events occurred that he wants to describe’.
As with st. 4, this stanza appears among citations illustrating terms for Christ in the Y version of LaufE (LaufE 1979, 364) and in a similar environment in RE 1665(Hh). — The citation is appropriate to the figure of chronographia, as it specifies the exact time of Christ’s death on the Cross, as mentioned in three of the four gospel accounts (Matt. XXVII.45-6; Mark XV.33-4; Luke XXIII.44-5). There it is stated that darkness fell upon the earth at the sixth hour and lasted until the ninth hour, at which time Christ died. The same idea appears in Anon (FoGT) 46/5.
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Sialfrꜳði do siðan solarfrons at noni sa er hekk en dagh dǫkti dǫg|lingr ꜳ̋ iarnnǫglvm.
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