Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Leiðarvísan 11’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 150.
Fárskerðir býðr fyrðum
friðkunnan dag sunnu
ýtum hollr of allan
aldr dýrliga at halda.
Gefa kvezk mætr í móti
meinhrjóðandi þjóðum
ár með ǫllum tíri
ok frið hreinan.
{Fárskerðir}, hollr ýtum, býðr fyrðum at halda dýrliga friðkunnan sunnu dag of allan aldr. {Mætr meinhrjóðandi} kvezk gefa þjóðum í móti ár ok hreinan frið með ǫllum tíri.
‘The misfortune-diminisher [= God], gracious to men, commands men to observe ceremoniously the peace-known day of the sun thoughout all ages. The worthy harm-destroyer [= God] says he will give the peoples in return abundance and pure peace with all glory.’
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
†Fár[...]kerðir† býðr fyrðum
frið†kunna[...]† dag sunnu
ýtum hollr of allan
aldr dýrliga †a[...]† halda.
Gefa kvezk mætr á móti
†mei[...]hrjoðannde† þjóðum
ár með †o᷎ll[...]m tír[...]†
ok frið hreinan.
Fár…kerder býdr fýrdum frið | kunna…dag sunnu ýtum hollr um allan alldr dýrlega a…hallda gefa kuezt mętur | a moti meí…hriodannde þíodum ár med o᷎ll…m tír…inart ok frið hreínan.
(TW)
Fárskerðir býðr fyrðum
friðankunnan dag sunnu
ýtum hollr of allan
aldr dýrliga at halda.
Gefa kvezk mætr í móti
meinhrjóðandi þjóðum
ár með ǫllum tíri
ok frið hreinan.
Fárskerðir býðr fyrðum
friðarkunna(n) dag sunnu
ýtum hollr of allan
aldr dýrliga a(ð) halda.
Gefa kvezk mætr í móti
meinhrjóðandi þjóðum
ár með ǫllum tír(i)
ok frið hreinan.
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [2]. Leiðarvísan 11: AI, 620, BI, 625, Skald I, 304; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 60, Rydberg 1907, 5-6, Attwood 1996a, 62-3, 173.
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