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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Kálf Kátr 49VII

Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Kálfr Hallsson, Kátrínardrápa 49’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 962.

Kálfr HallssonKátrínardrápa
484950

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Kátrín bið eg, að Kálfi veiti
kvæðislaun, er hleypr hin skæða
emjandi frá efsta dómi,
öflug, ferð með svörtum djöfli.
Greini og verndi gjörðir mínar
göfug Máría sólar jöfri
giftu fyld og guðdóms krafti;
græðarinn einn er henni æðri.

Eg bið, að öflug Kátrín veiti Kálfi kvæðislaun, er hin skæða ferð hleypr emjandi með svörtum djöfli frá efsta dómi. Göfug Máría, fyld giftu og krafti guðdóms, greini og verndi gjörðir mínar {jöfri sólar}; græðarinn einn er æðri henni.
 
‘I ask that powerful Catherine grant Kálfur [me] payment for the poem, when the dangerous host runs howling with the black devil from the Last Judgement. May the noble Mary, full of good fortune and the power of divinity, explain and defend my deeds to the king of the sun [= God (= Christ)]; only the Saviour is higher than she.

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Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 11]. Katrínar drápa 49: AII, 526, BII, 581, Skald II, 321; Jón Þorkelsson 1888, 235 (ll. 1-4), Kahle 1898, 77, 109, Sperber 1911, 54, 83.

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