Gamlkan Has 8VII
Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Harmsól 8’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 80.
text and translation
Oflǫskvan hǫfum œsku
aldr várn spanit sjaldan
— barkat blóm á verkum
bráðgǫrt — frá ódôðum,
ítr, þás opt á móti
ófríð risu blíðum,
mærðvinnandi manna,
mín verk boðum þínum.
Hǫfum sjaldan spanit várn oflǫskvan aldr œsku frá ódôðum — barkat bráðgǫrt blóm á verkum —, þás ófríð verk mín risu opt á móti þínum blíðum boðum, {ítr mærðvinnandi manna}.
‘We [I] have rarely enticed our [my] lazy age of youth away from misdeeds — I did not bear easily ripened fruit on account of my deeds —, when my ugly deeds often rose against your friendly commands, glorious praise-winner of men [= God].’
notes and context
readings
- [1] hǫfum: ‘ho᷎f’ B
- [2] sjaldan: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘sialld[...]’ B
- [3] blóm: ‘bl[...]’ B, ‘blọma’(?) 399a‑bˣ, (blom)(?) BRydberg, blom BFJ
- [8] verk boðum þínum: ‘v[...]odum[...]’ B, ‘vẹṛḳ boðum þịṇụṃ’ 399a‑bˣ, ‘væ(rk) (b)odum (þi)[...]’(?) BRydberg, ‘ve(rk) bodum þ(inum)’(?) BFJ
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) — 12v/5 - 12v/7
imagesOflǫskvan †ho᷎f† œsku
aldr várn spanit †sialld[...]†
— barkat †bl[...]† á verkum
bráðgǫrt — frá ódôðum,
ítr, þás opt á móti
ófríð risu blíðum,
mærðvinnandi manna,
mín †v[...]odum[...]† .Of- | lo᷎skuan ho᷎f ęsku allðr varn spaneð sialld… barkat e… bl…a uerkum bradgo᷎rt fra odádum | ítr þá er oppt a mote ofrid risu blidum męrd vínnanndí manna mín v…odum …|
(EB)
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Lbs 444 4°x (444x)
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JS 399 a-b 4°x (399a-bx)
Oflǫskvan hǫfum œsku
aldr várn spanit sjaldan
— barkat †blọma† á verkum
bráðgǫrt — frá ódôðum,
ítr, þás opt á móti
ófríð risu blíðum,
mærðvinnandi manna,
mín †vẹṛḳ boðum þịṇụṃ† .
editions and texts
Skj: Gamli kanóki, 2. Harmsól 8: AI, 563, BI, 550, Skald I, 267; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 15, Kempff 1867, 3, Rydberg 1907, 21-2, Black 1971, 157, Attwood 1996a, 223.
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