Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Geisli 65’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 60.
Heims hykk hingat kvômu
hǫfuðsmenn í stað þenna
— snarr tyggi bergr seggjum
sólar — erkistóli.
Hérs af himna gervis
heilagr viðr — sem biðjum,
yfirskjǫldungr, bjarg, aldar,
oss — píningar krossi.
Hykk hǫfuðsmenn heims kvômu erkistóli hingat í stað þenna; {snarr tyggi sólar} bergr seggjum. Hérs heilagr viðr af krossi píningar {gervis himna}; {yfirskjǫldungr aldar}, bjarg oss, sem biðjum.
‘I know that the rulers of the world brought an archbishopric here to this place; the quick prince of the sun [= God (= Christ)] saves men. Here there is holy wood from the Cross of torture of the maker of the heavens [= God (= Christ)]; supreme king of men [= God], protect us as we pray.’
[1-4]: A reference to the establishment of the archdiocese of Trondheim in 1152, the visit of Cardinal Nicholas Breakspear to Norway, and his consecration of Jón Birgisson (who was in Einarr’s audience) as its first archbishop.
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Heims hykk hingat kvômu
hǫfuð manns í stað þenna
— snarr tyggi bergr seggjum
sólar — †erchistolar†.
Hérs af himna gervis
heilagr viðr — sem biðjum,
yfirskjǫldungr, bjarg þú, aldar,
oss — píningar krossi.
Heims hykk hingat kvômu
hǫfuðsmenn í stað þenna
— snart tyggi bergr seggjum
sólar — erkistóli.
Hérs af himna gervis
heilagr viðr — sem biðjum,
yfirskjǫldungr, bjarg, aldar,
oss — píningar krossi.
Skj: Einarr Skúlason, 6. Geisli 65: AI, 471, BI, 443-4, Skald I, 218; Flat 1860-8, I, 7, Cederschiöld 1873, 9, Chase 2005, 115, 164-5.
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