Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Geisli 63’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 58-9.
Heðan vas ungr frá angri
— alls mest vini flesta
guð reynir svá sína —
siklingr numinn miklu.
Nú lifir hraustr í hæstri
himna valds, þars aldri,
fárskerðandi fyrða
friðarsýn, gleði týnisk.
Siklingr vas numinn ungr heðan frá miklu angri; guð reynir svá flesta vini sína alls mest. Nú lifir {hraustr fárskerðandi fyrða} í hæstri friðarsýn {valds himna}, þars gleði aldri týnisk.
‘The king was taken young from here, from great affliction; God tests thus most of his friends very frequently. Now the valiant misfortune-diminisher of men [SAINT] lives in the highest vision of peace of the ruler of the heavens [= God], where joy never ceases.’
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Heðan vas ungr frá angri
— alls mest vini flestir
guð reynir svá sína —
siklingr numinn miklu.
Nú lifir hraustr af hæstri
himna valds, þars aldri,
fárskerðandi fyrða
friðarsýn, gleði týnisk.
Heðan vas ungr frá angri
— alls mest vinir flesta
guð reynir svá sína —
siklingr numinn miklu.
Nú lifir hraustr í hæstri
himna valds, þars aldri,
fárskerðandi fyrða
friðarsýn, gleði týnisk.
Skj: Einarr Skúlason, 6. Geisli 63: AI, 471, BI, 443, Skald I, 218, NN §2055; Flat 1860-8, I, 6-7, Cederschiöld 1873, 9, Chase 2005, 113, 163.
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