Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Leiðarvísan 45’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 178.
Nú skal drótt á lok líta
— lopthjalms dǫgum optar
dýrkim dǫglings verka
dáðhress — bragar þessa.
Heim laði dýrr frá dómi
dags hallar gramr allan
— þjóð hjali kersk of kvæði —
kristinn lýð til vistar.
Nú skal drótt líta á lok bragar þessa; dýrkim dǫgum optar verka {dáðhress dǫglings {lopthjalms}}. {Dýrr gramr {dags hallar}} laði allan kristinn lýð heim frá dómi til vistar; þjóð hjali kersk of kvæði.
‘The company shall now look on the end of this poem; let us praise more often than [there are] days the works of the deed-hearty king of the sky-helmet [SKY/HEAVEN > = God]. May the glorious prince of day’s hall [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)] invite all Christian folk home from judgement to his dwelling place; may people chatter cheerfully about the poem.’
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.
Nu skal drott a lok líta loppt hialms do᷎gum opptarr dýrkem do᷎glíngs ver- | ka dádhress bragar þessa heim laðe dýrr fra dome dags hallar gramr allan þíoð | híale kersk vm kuęde kristenn lýd til vistar.
(TW)
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [2]. Leiðarvísan 45: AI, 626, BI, 633, Skald I, 308, NN §2562; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 70, Rydberg 1907, 11, Attwood 1996a, 71, 182.
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