Anon Mdr 26VII
Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 26’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 499-500.
Heil ‘Hail’
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3. heill (adj.; °heilan; compar. heilli, superl. -astr/-str): healthy, hale, hail
[1] Heil Máría: ‘[ ...]a[...]ia’ B, ‘Heil Ṃaria’ 399a‑bˣ
notes
[1] Heil, Máría ‘Hail Mary’: The 399a-bˣ reading is confirmed by comparison with the Lat., a direct rendering of Ave Maria.
Máría ‘Mary’
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María (noun f.): Mary
[1] Heil Máría: ‘[ ...]a[...]ia’ B, ‘Heil Ṃaria’ 399a‑bˣ
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[1] Heil, Máría ‘Hail Mary’: The 399a-bˣ reading is confirmed by comparison with the Lat., a direct rendering of Ave Maria.
hærri ‘higher’
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3. hár (adj.; °-van; compar. hǽrri, superl. hǽstr): high
hier ‘here’
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hér (adv.): here
funnin ‘found’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
[2] funnin: ‘f[...]nnen’ B, ‘fụnnen’ 399a‑bˣ
miskunnar ‘mercy’
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miskunn (noun f.; °-ar; gen. -a): forgiveness, mercy, grace
guðs ‘of God’s’
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1. guð (noun m.; °***guðrs, guðis, gus): (Christian) God
full ‘full’
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2. fullr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): full, complete
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[3] gæzku ‘goodness’: The second syllable is illegible in B. Jón Sigurðsson (n. to 444ˣ transcript) suggests reconstruction to gæzku, which is confirmed by the Lat. gratia plena ‘full of grace’.
gnótt ‘abundance’
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gnótt (noun f.): abundance
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
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[4] dróttinn er með þier ‘The Lord is with you’: No traces remain of the third and fourth syllables of l. 4, though Rydberg (1907, 37 n. 4) claims to have seen traces of an <m> and a superscript abbreviation. He suggests reconstruction to með þér, and construes dróttinn er með þér ‘the Lord is with you’, which is followed by Skj B. Kock (NN §1652 and Skald) emends to dróttins, arranging gnótt gæzku allrar dróttins er með þér ‘the abundance of the Lord’s whole grace is with you’. Comparison with the Lat. text: Ave Maria, gratia plena. Dominus tecum ‘Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with you’ makes it clear that this emendation is unnecessary.
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[4] dróttinn er með þier ‘The Lord is with you’: No traces remain of the third and fourth syllables of l. 4, though Rydberg (1907, 37 n. 4) claims to have seen traces of an <m> and a superscript abbreviation. He suggests reconstruction to með þér, and construes dróttinn er með þér ‘the Lord is with you’, which is followed by Skj B. Kock (NN §1652 and Skald) emends to dróttins, arranging gnótt gæzku allrar dróttins er með þér ‘the abundance of the Lord’s whole grace is with you’. Comparison with the Lat. text: Ave Maria, gratia plena. Dominus tecum ‘Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with you’ makes it clear that this emendation is unnecessary.
þier ‘you’
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þú (pron.; °gen. þín, dat. þér, acc. þik): you
[4] með þier: ‘[...]’ B, 399a‑bˣ, ‘(m)[...]’ BRydberg
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[4] dróttinn er með þier ‘The Lord is with you’: No traces remain of the third and fourth syllables of l. 4, though Rydberg (1907, 37 n. 4) claims to have seen traces of an <m> and a superscript abbreviation. He suggests reconstruction to með þér, and construes dróttinn er með þér ‘the Lord is with you’, which is followed by Skj B. Kock (NN §1652 and Skald) emends to dróttins, arranging gnótt gæzku allrar dróttins er með þér ‘the abundance of the Lord’s whole grace is with you’. Comparison with the Lat. text: Ave Maria, gratia plena. Dominus tecum ‘Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with you’ makes it clear that this emendation is unnecessary.
dróttinn ‘the Lord’
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dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
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[4] dróttinn er með þier ‘The Lord is with you’: No traces remain of the third and fourth syllables of l. 4, though Rydberg (1907, 37 n. 4) claims to have seen traces of an <m> and a superscript abbreviation. He suggests reconstruction to með þér, and construes dróttinn er með þér ‘the Lord is with you’, which is followed by Skj B. Kock (NN §1652 and Skald) emends to dróttins, arranging gnótt gæzku allrar dróttins er með þér ‘the abundance of the Lord’s whole grace is with you’. Comparison with the Lat. text: Ave Maria, gratia plena. Dominus tecum ‘Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with you’ makes it clear that this emendation is unnecessary.
Blessuð ‘blessed’
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blessa (verb): bless
ert ‘are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
birtiz ‘appear’
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2. birta (verb; °-rt-): reveal
bót ‘the remedy’
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bót (noun f.; °-ar; bǿtr): compensation
lífs ‘of life’
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líf (noun n.; °-s; -): life
framar ‘foremost’
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framr (adj.; °compar. framari/fremri, superl. framastr/fremstr): outstanding, foremost
snótum ‘among women’
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snót (noun f.; °; -ir): woman
tignaz ‘is exalted’
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tígna (verb): honour
bragna ‘of men’
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bragnar (noun m.): men, warriors
[7] bragna: ‘[...]gna’ B, ‘ḅṛạgna’ 399a‑bˣ
blóm ‘flower’
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blóm (noun n.; °-s; -): flower
kviðar ‘womb’
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1. kviðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -; -ir, acc. -u): womb
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This st. is a close translation of the Ave Maria, which is a conflation of the salutations of Gabriel and Elizabeth in Luke I.28 and I.42. Because of B’s damaged state, one must rely on previous readings and reconstructions, notably the 399a-bˣ transcription. Reconstructions have been checked against the Lat. — [7-8]: Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends B’s ‘blezuð’ to the n. sg. form blessat, probably assuming dittography from blessuð (l. 5). He construes þíns kviðar sómi tignaz, blessat blóm bragna, translating dit moderlivs hæder æres, menneskenes velsignede blomst ‘your womb’s honour is exalted, mankind’s blessed flower’. Kock (Skald) accepts this interpretation without comment and it has been adopted here. Both Rydberg and Attwood 1996a, 309 and 333-4 keep the ms. reading blessuð and construe with blóm (n. pl.), viz. blessuð blóm þíns kviðar; sómi bragna tígnaz ‘blessed [are] the flowers of your womb; the honour of men is glorified’. This reading is possible, but makes for great syntactic fragmentation of ll. 7-8.
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