Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 22’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 496-7.
Váttr ertu, seggja sættir,
sannhróðig guðs móðir;
lætr eigi lymskar mútur
ljúgorð af þier kúga.
En, ef gagns þurfa þegnar
þíns við nauðsyn sína,
góðs vitnis ber þú gotnum
greinir framm með einurð.
Váttr ertu, sættir seggja, {sannhróðig móðir guðs}; lætr eigi lymskar mútur kúga ljúgorð af þier. En, ef þegnar þurfa gagns þíns við nauðsyn sína, ber þú framm gotnum greinir góðs vitnis með einurð.
‘You are a witness, reconciler of men, truly famous mother of God [= Mary]; you do not allow cunning bribes to force lying words from you. But if men need your support in their neediness, you bear forth for men good testimony [lit. elements of good witness] with sincerity.’
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.
Váttr ertu, seggja sættir,
sannhróðig guðs móðir;
lætr eigi lymskar mútur
†l[...]ugord† af þier kúga.
†[...]n†, ef gagn †þ[...]fa† þegnar
þíns við nauðsyn sína,
góðs vitnis ber þú gotnum
greinir framm †m[...]† einurð.
Vo᷎ttr ertu seggia sętter sannhrodígh guds moder | lętr þu eigi lýmskar mutur l…ugord af þer kuga …n ef gagn þ…fa þegnar þín vid no᷎dsýn sína goðs | vítniss berr þu gotnum greíner framm m…einurd.
(EB)
Váttr ertu, seggja sættir,
sannhróðig guðs móðir;
lætr eigi lymskar mútur
ljúgorð af þier kúga.
e(n), ef gagns þ(ur)fa þegnar
þíns við nauðsyn sína,
góðs vitnis ber þú gotnum
greinir framm með einurð.
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