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Ekúl Kristdr 4III

Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Eilífr kúlnasveinn, Kristsdrápa 4’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 133.

Eilífr kúlnasveinnKristsdrápa
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text and translation

Himins dýrð lofar hǫlða
— hanns alls konungr — stilli.

Dýrð himins lofar {stilli hǫlða}; hanns {konungr alls}.
 
‘The glory of heaven praises the ruler of men [= God (= Christ)]; he is king of everything [= God (= Christ)].

notes and context

This couplet is separated by examples by two other skalds from Eilífr’s previous three helmingar, but probably belongs to the same poem. It is introduced in R with Svá kvað Eilífr kúlnasveinn ‘So said Eilífr kúlnasveinn’. After the citation the prose text explains: Hér kallaði hann fyrst Krist konung manna ok annat sinn alls konung ‘Here he called Christ first king of men and the second time king of everything’.

A similar variation of vocabulary is observable here as in Eilífr’s three previous helmingar. In l. 1, dýrð himins ‘the glory of heaven’ varies ǫll ǫnnur dýrð ‘all other glory’ in st. 1/3 and dýrðar himna ‘of the glory of the heavens’ in st. 2/1. See Note to the latter phrase.

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Eilífr kúlnasveinn, 1. Kristsdrápa(?), el. brudstykker af digte(?). 4: AI, 572, BI, 566, Skald I, 274; SnE 1848-87, I, 450-1, II, 334, 446, III, 91, SnE 1931, 159, SnE 1998, I, 78.

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