Ník Jóndr 2^VII

Þeim unni guð geymi
guðdóms, es vel sómir,
hreinum himna sýnar,
hirðar vist með Kristi.
Jón, heyrðir þú orða
eilífs fǫður deili,
hollr við oss, ok allan
almôtt séa knáttir.

Guð unni sýnar himna {þeim hreinum geymi guðdóms}, es vist hirðar með Kristi vel sómir. Jón, hollr við oss, þú heyrðir deili orða eilífs fǫður ok knáttir séa allan almôtt.

God granted a vision of the heavens {to that pure guardian of divinity} [APOSTLE], whom an abode in the court with Christ well beseems. John, gracious towards us, you heard the distinctive features of the words of the eternal Father and were able to see all [his] omnipotence.

Mss: 649a(46r) (Jón⁴)

Editions: Skj AI, 560, Skj BI, 546, Skald I, 265; Jón⁴ 1874, 509-10, Bugge 1874, 933, Lange 1958a, 78.

Context: In Jón⁴ this st. is introduced with the remark: Af somu elsku talar hann i oðrum stað, hvert innsigli sonr guðs lagði til hennar i Pathmós, þa er hann segir sva ‘Of this love [i.e. which Christ bore S. John] and of what confirmation the son of God placed upon it in Patmos he [i.e. Níkulás] speaks in another place [i.e. in the poem], where he says as follows’.

Notes: [All]: This st. appears to refer to the vision granted to John, upon which the biblical Book of Revelation is based (cf. the remark in Jón⁴ 1874, 509; Rev. I.9-20; Lange 1958a, 81, 83). — [5-8]: A reference to the Revelation of John on Patmos, for which the phrase himna sýn is attested for the first time in ON. It is also in Veraldar saga (Jakob Benediktsson 1944, 54): Þar [on Patmos] sa Joan postvli himna syn ok het sv bok Apokalipsis er hann gerþi þar ‘There John the Apostle saw a vision of the heavens and was called the book he wrote there “Apocalypse”’. The same idea is in Gamlkan Jóndr 2. Bugge (1874, 933) takes the gen. phrase eilífs fǫður ‘of the eternal father’ to modify allmátt ‘omnipotence’ rather than deili orða ‘distinctive features of words’.

References

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11. Internal references
12. Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2007, ‘Gamli kanóki, Jónsdrápa 2’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 134-5.
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