Gamlkan Has 3VII
Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 3’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 75-6.
text and translation
Send þú yðvarn anda,
einskepjandi, hreinan
mér, þanns mitt of fœri
munar grand heðan, landa.
Alls megu ekki þollar
án fremja þess hônum
súða viggs, es seggjum
siðabót af því hljótisk.
Send þú mér hreinan anda yðvarn, {einskepjandi landa}, þanns of fœri heðan munar grand mitt. Alls ekki megu {þollar {viggs súða}} fremja þess án hônum, es siðabót hljótisk seggjum af því.
‘Send your pure spirit to me, sole creator of lands [= God], the one which may carry hence my sorrow of mind. Trees of the steed of planking [SHIP > SEAFARERS] can by no means achieve this without it [lit. him, viz. the Holy Spirit], because moral amendment may proceed for men from it.’
notes and context
readings
- [3] fœri: ‘fę[...]e’ B, ‘ferị’ 399a‑bˣ, ‘fæ(ræ)’(?) BRydberg, ‘fe᷎re’ BFJ
- [5] megu: so all others, ‘meg[...]’ B
sources
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.
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AM 757 a 4° (B) — 12r/47 - 12r/49
imagesSend þú yðvarn anda,
einskepjandi, hreinan
mér, þanns mitt of †fę[...]e†
munar grand heðan, landa.
Alls †meg[...]† ekki þollar
án fremja þess hônum
súða viggs, es seggjum
siðabót af því hljótisk.Senndu yduarn annda eímskepiande hreínan mer þann er mítt of fę…e… munar grand hedan lann– | da allz meg… eckí þollar án fremía þers hánum suda viggs er seggium sida bot af | þui hlíotíz.
(EB)
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Lbs 444 4°x (444x)
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JS 399 a-b 4°x (399a-bx)
Send þú yðvarn anda,
einskepjandi, hreinan
mér, þanns mitt of †ferị†
munar grand heðan, landa.
Alls megu ekki þollar
án fremja þess hônum
súða viggs, es seggjum
siðabót af því hljótisk.
editions and texts
Skj: Gamli kanóki, 2. Harmsól 3: AI, 562, BI, 549, Skald I, 266, NN §2926; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 14, Kempff 1867, 1, Rydberg 1907, 20, Jón Helgason 1935-6, 253, Black 1971, 140, Attwood 1996a, 222.
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