Anon Líkn 46VII
George S. Tate (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Líknarbraut 46’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 281-2.
Minnumz á hvat unni
öðlingr í píningu
árs, þá er orð slík heyrum,
oss deyjandi á krossi.
Leiðum hörð á hauðri
hjarta várs með tárum,
systkin mín, fyr sjónir
siðgætis meinlæti.
Minnumz á, þá er heyrum slík orð, hvat {öðlingr árs}, deyjandi á krossi, unni oss í píningu. Systkin mín, leiðum hörð meinlæti {siðgætis} á hauðri fyr várs hjarta sjónir með tárum.
Let us remember, when we hear such words, how {the prince of the year’s abundance} [= Christ], dying on the Cross, loved us in his Passion. My brothers and sisters, let us bring the hard torments {of the faith-guardian} [= God (= Christ)] on earth before our heart’s eyes with tears.
Mss: B(12r), 399a-bˣ
Readings: [5] hörð: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘ho᷎r[...]’ B
Editions: Skj AII, 158, Skj BII, 172, Skald II, 91, NN §2448A; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1844, 49, Rydberg 1907, 19, 52, Tate 1974, 91.
Notes: [5-8] leiðum ... fyr várs hjarta sjónir ... meinlæti ‘let us bring ... before our heart’s eyes ... the torments’: The idiom is leiða e-t augum ‘to lead something to the eyes, to make something the object of sight’ (see e.g. Hym 13/7-8 [NK 90] and Fritzner: leiða 7). This seems to be the only occurrence with fyr(ir) (but cf. setja fyr augu ‘set before the eyes’ 42/4); it may suggest not only bringing but holding the object before one in sustained contemplation. — [6-7] hjarta sjónir ‘heart’s eyes’: Sjón ‘sight, appearance’ > ‘faculty of sight’ > ‘eye’. Rydberg makes hjarta part of a kenning for God: várs hjarta siðgætis ‘virtue-guardian of our heart’. But hjarta sjónir translates the oculi cordis ‘eyes of the heart’ of Eph. I.18, which occurs also in the liturgy (Manz 1941, 330, no. 653). — [8] siðgætis (gen. sg.) ‘faith-guardian, i.e., guardian of the faith [= God (= Christ)]’: Siðr ‘custom, conduct, virtue, faith, religion’. Cf. siðskjótr ‘quick to promote virtue/faith’ 6/6 and siðnenninn ‘virtue-striving’ 18/8 – both as divine attributes.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Rydberg, Hugo, ed. 1907. ‘Die geistlichen Drápur und Dróttkvættfragmente des Cod. AM 757 4to.’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Lund. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Tate, George S. 1974. ‘Líknarbraut: A Skaldic Drápa on the Cross’. Ph.D. thesis. Cornell University. DAI 35:6112A.
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- NK = Neckel, Gustav and Hans Kuhn (1899), eds. 1983. Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. 2 vols. I: Text. 5th edn. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Manz, Georg. 1941. Ausdrucksformen der lateinischen Liturgiesprache bis ins elfte Jahrhundert. Texte und Arbeiten herausgegeben durch die Erzabtei Beuron. Abteilung I, Beiheft I. Beiträge zur Ergründung des älteren lateinischen christlichen Schrifttums und Gottesdienstes 1. Beuron in Hohenzollern: Beuroner Kunstverlag.
- 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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