Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Geisli 3’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 9.
Siðar heilags brá sólar
— setrs vas þat fyr betra
auðfinnǫndum annars
ómjós rǫðuls — ljósi.
Œztr þrifnuðr réð efnask
oss, þás líf á krossi
jarðar allra fyrða
ónauðigr tók dauða.
{Ljósi {sólar heilags siðar}} brá; þat vas {auðfinnǫndum} fyr {betra {ómjós setrs annars rǫðuls}}. Œztr þrifnuðr réð efnask oss, þás tók ónauðigr líf allra fyrða jarðar dauða á krossi.
‘The light of the sun of holy faith [= God > = Christ] was extinguished; for finders of riches [MEN] that preceded the better [light] of the not-small abode of another sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)]. The best prosperity decided to bring itself to us when he, willing, won the life of all the men of earth through death on a cross.’
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.
Siðar heilags brá sólar
— setrs vas þat fyr betra
auð†-finnendum† annars
†o míors† rǫðuls — †liorsi†.
Œztr þrifnuðr réð efnask
oss, þás líf á krossi
jarðar allra fyrða
ónauðigr tók dauða.
Siðar heilags brá sólar
— setr vas þat fyr betra
auðfinnǫndum annars
ómjós rǫðuls — ljósi.
Œztr þrifnuðr nam efnask
oss, þás líf á krossi
jarðar allra fyrða
ónauðigr tók dauða.
Skj: Einarr Skúlason, 6. Geisli 3: AI, 459, BI, 427, Skald I, 211, NN §§927, 928, 2315A; Flat 1860-8, I, 1, Cederschiöld 1873, 1, Chase 2005, 53, 127-9.
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