Anon Leið 37VII
Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Leiðarvísan 37’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 172.
Menn skulu œztum unna
angrs hrjóðanda þjóðar
— mér berr máls á stýri
mart — af ǫllu hjarta.
Siðminningr fær sannan
seima Þróttr af dróttni
(Kristr gefr fyrðum) fasta
(friðar vôn, þeims ann hônum).
Menn skulu unna {œztum hrjóðanda {angrs þjóðar}} af ǫllu hjarta; mart berr mér á {stýri máls}. {Siðminningr Þróttr seima} fær sannan fasta af dróttni; Kristr gefr fyrðum, þeims ann hônum, friðar vôn.
Men must love {the most excellent destroyer {of the harm of people}} [SIN > = God] with all their hearts; many a thing comes to {my rudder of speech} [TONGUE]. {The faithful Þróttr <= Óðinn> of riches} [MAN] receives true strength from the Lord; Christ gives to men who love him the hope of peace.
Mss: B(11r), 399a-bˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 625, Skj BI, 631, Skald I, 307; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 67-8, Rydberg 1907, 10, Attwood 1996a, 69, 180.
Notes: [7-8]: Cf. 42/7-8: Kristr gefr fyrðum fastan | frið en ek kunna biðja.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Attwood, Katrina. 1996a. ‘The Poems of MS AM 757a 4to: An Edition and Contextual Study’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Leeds.
- Rydberg, Hugo, ed. 1907. ‘Die geistlichen Drápur und Dróttkvættfragmente des Cod. AM 757 4to.’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Lund. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1844. Fjøgur gømul kvæði. Boðsrit til að hlusta á þá opinberu yfirheyrslu í Bessastaða Skóla þann 22-29 mai 1844. Viðeyar Klaustri: prentuð af Helga Helgasyni, á kostnað Bessastaða Skóla. Bessastaðir: Helgi Helgason.
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