Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Leiðarvísan 6’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 145-6.
Tekk til orðs, þars urðu
alfregnar jartegnir
— tôkn eru sýnd í slíku
sǫnn — Jórsalamǫnnum.
Sendi salvǫrðr grundar
snillifimr af himni
borgar lýð til bjargar
bréf gollstǫfum sollit.
Tekk til orðs, þars alfregnar jartegnir urðu Jórsalamǫnnum; sǫnn tôkn eru sýnd í slíku. {Snillifimr {grundar sal}vǫrðr} sendi bréf af himni, sollit gollstǫfum, til bjargar lýð borgar.
‘I begin to speak at the point when renowned miracles befell the people of Jerusalem; true tokens are shown in such [a thing]. The prowess-nimble warden of the hall of the earth [(lit. ‘earth’s hall-warden’) SKY/HEAVEN > = God] sent a letter from heaven, embellished [lit. swollen] with golden letters, as a help for the townspeople.’
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.
†Tek [...]k† til orðs, þars urðu
alfregnar jartegnir
— tôkn eru sýnd í slíku
sǫnn — Jórsalamǫnnum.
Sendi salvǫrðr grundar
snillifimr af himni
borgar lýð til bjargar
bréf gollstǫfum sollit.
Tek … k til ordz þar er urdu allregnar íarteigner takn eru sýnd i sliku sǫnn iorsala mo᷎nnum senndí | salvordr grunndar snillefimr af himne borgar lýð til biargar bref gullsto᷎fum sullet.
(TW)
Tekk til orðs, þars urðu
alfregnar jartegnir
— tôkn eru sýnd í slíku
sǫnn — Jórsalamǫnnum.
Sendi salvǫrðr grundar
snillifimr af himni
borgar lýð til bjargar
bréf †gullstǫfum sullath† .
Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [2]. Leiðarvísan 6: AI, 619, BI, 623, Skald I, 303; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 58, Rydberg 1907, 5, Attwood 1996a, 61, 172.
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