Kolb Jónv 4VII
Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2007, ‘Kolbeinn Tumason, Jónsvísur 4’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 226.
text and translation
Kœnn, lé*zt þú hag hreinnar
hǫfðingi, drótningar,
hafs meðan hyrþǫll lifði,
hugat blíðliga síðan.
Þér var hón, sem hárar
hildingr skipa vildi
(ykr lofar) éla þekju,
(ǫll þjóð) í stað móður.
Kœnn hǫfðingi, þú lé*zt hag hreinnar drótningar hugat blíðliga síðan, meðan {{hafs hyr}þǫll} lifði. Hón var í stað móður þér, sem {hildingr {hárar þekju éla}} vildi skipa; ǫll þjóð lofar ykr.
‘Wise chieftain, you let the circumstances of the pure queen be attended to kindly thereafter, as long as the fir sapling of the fire of the sea [(lit. ‘sea’s fire-fir sapling’) GOLD > WOMAN = Mary] lived. She was in the position of a mother to you, as the warlord of the high thatch of snowstorms [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)] wanted it arranged; all people praise you.’
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AM 649 a 4° (649a) — 47v/9 - 47v/12
imagesKœnn, †leitz† þú hag hreinnar
hǫfðingi, drótningar,
hafs meðan hyrþǫll lifði,
hugat blíðliga síðan.
Þér var hón, sem hárar
hildingr skipa vildi
(ykr lofar) éla þekju,
(ǫll þjóð) í stað móður.Kę́nn leítz þu hag hreinnar · hofðíngi drot | ningar hafs meðan hýrþóll lifði · hugat | blidliga siðan · þer var hon sem haʀar · hilldingr ski | pa villdi · yckr lofar éla þekíu · oll þiod í stað ⸍⸍ moður |
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