Kálf Kátr 30VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Kálfr Hallsson, Kátrínardrápa 30’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 950.
Tólf daga liet tróðu elfar
tiggi elds í höftum liggja
bunna fast í byrgðu ranni,
— bauð hann slíkt — áðr * hun tók dauða.
Sína hitti siklingr mána
sannr lausnari allra manna
ítarligr með eingla sveitum
ambátt kæra og ljósi skæru.
Tólf daga liet tiggi {tróðu {elds elfar}} liggja bunna fast í höftum í byrgðu ranni, áðr * hun tók dauða; hann bauð slíkt. {Ítarligr siklingr mána}, {sannr lausnari allra manna}, hitti kæra ambátt sína með sveitum eingla og skæru ljósi.
For twelve days the king let {the stick {of the fire of the river}} [GOLD > WOMAN] lie bound fast in fetters in the locked house before she died; he commanded thus. {The magnificent prince of the moon} [= God (= Christ)], {the true redeemer of all men} [= God (= Christ)], met his dear handmaid with hosts of angels and a bright light.
Mss: 713(131-132), 399a-bˣ(17), 920ˣ(216v)
Readings: [3] byrgðu: so 399a‑bˣ, 920ˣ, ‘byrðgu’ 713 [4] áðr *: áðr en all
Editions: Skj AII, 522, Skj BII, 576-7, Skald II, 317, NN §§2764, 2958A, 2966, 3397M, Kahle 1898, 73, 107, Sperber 1911, 50, 81.
Notes: [All]: In the prose legend (Unger 1877, I, 413; Wolf 2003, 135) God sends his angel to Catherine and grants her a vision of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, who speaks words of comfort, as summarised in st. 31.
References
- Bibliography
- Unger, C. R., ed. 1877. Heilagra manna søgur. Fortællinger og legender om hellige mænd og kvinder. 2 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Bentzen.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Sperber, Hans, ed. 1911. Sechs isländische Gedichte legendarischen Inhalts. Uppsala Universitets årsskrift, filosofi, språkvetenskap och historiska vetenskaper 2. Uppsala: Akademische Buchdruckerei Edv. Berling.
- Wolf, Kirsten, ed. 2003. Heilagra meyja sögur. Íslenzk trúarrit 1. Reykjavík: Bókmenntafræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands.
- Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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