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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Gamlkan Has 27VII

Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 27’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 96-7.

Gamli kanókiHarmsól
262728

text and translation

Sæll, tókt einn fyr allar
óverðr guma ferðir,
sannstýrandi, sáran,
sólhauðrs, á þik dauða,
ok liðfasta (leystir)
lífs unnir þú runnum
(hǫlða ferð ór harðri
harms gnótt) fira dróttinn.

{Sæll sannstýrandi {sólhauðrs}}, einn óverðr, tókt sáran dauða á þik fyr {allar ferðir guma}, ok þú unnir {runnum {liðfasta}} lífs, {dróttinn fira}; leystir {ferð hǫlða} ór harðri gnótt harms.
 
‘Blessed true-steerer of the sun-land [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)], alone, undeserving, you took a painful death upon yourself for all the hosts of men [MANKIND], and you granted life to bushes of arm-fires [GOLD RINGS > MEN], lord of men [= God (= Christ)]; you freed the host of men [MANKIND] from a cruel abundance of grief.

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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: Gamli kanóki, 2. Harmsól 27: AI, 567, BI, 555, Skald I, 269, NN §1194; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 21-2, Kempff 1867, 8, Rydberg 1907, 25, Black 1971, 208, Attwood 1996a, 228.

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