Kolb Jónv 1VII
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2007, ‘Kolbeinn Tumason, Jónsvísur 1’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 224.
Angrfellir, vast ǫllum
einn postolum hreinni
heilags Krists í hæstu,
happskeytr, fǫruneyti.
Unni engum manni
jafnheitt friðar veitir
þýðr sem þér ok móður
— þats minniligt — sinni.
{Happskeytr angrfellir}, vast einn hreinni ǫllum postolum í hæstu fǫruneyti heilags Krists. {Þýðr veitir friðar} unni engum manni jafnheitt sem þér ok móður sinni — þats minniligt.
{Lucky-shooting sorrow-feller} [APOSTLE], you were alone purer than all the Apostles in the highest company of holy Christ. {The friendly granter of peace} [= God (= Christ)] loved no-one as ardently as you and his mother — that is worthy of remembrance.
Mss: 649a(47r) (Jón4)
Editions: Skj AII, 37, Skj BII, 45-46, Skald II, 28, NN §2560; Jón4 1874, 511, Bugge 1874, 935, GBpB, 570n.
Context: See Introduction.
Notes: [1, 4] happskeytr angrfellir ‘lucky-shooting sorrow-feller’: Both cpds in this kenning for a saint or, here, specifically the Apostle John, are hap. leg. — [5-8]: Kolbeinn here makes the traditional identification of John with the unnamed ‘disciple whom Jesus loved’ (cf. John XIII.23, XXI.7, 20; Anon Alpost 4).
References
- Bibliography
- 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.
- Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1874. ‘Anmærkingar ved de til Jons saga IV henhørende viser’. In Unger 1874, 932-6.
- GBpB = Guðmundar saga biskups (“B”). In Bskp, 559-60426, 60822-136.
- Internal references
- Ian McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Allra postula minnisvísur 4’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 857-8.
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