Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 32’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 504-5.
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leysa (verb): release, loosen, redeem
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með (prep.): with
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frelsi (noun n.): freedom
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fastr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): firm, fast
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2. frekr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): greedy
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band (noun n.; °-s; *-): band, bond
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af (prep.): from
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
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sekr (adj.; °-jan/-an): guilty
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1. bók (noun f.; °bǿkr/bókar; bǿkr): book
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blindr (adj.; °compar. -ari): blind
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
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fram (adv.): out, forth, forwards, away
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ljós (noun n.; °ljóss; -): light
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
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kjósa (verb): choose
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1. braut (noun f.; °dat. -/-u; -ir): path, way; away
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2. reka (verb): drive, force
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frægð (noun f.): fame
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flýtir (noun m.): hastener
[5] flýtir: ‘fly[...]’ B, ‘flýtt(an)’(?) 399a‑bˣ, ‘flýter’ BRydberg, BFJ
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2. fár (noun n.; °-s): harm, danger
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afgerð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): crime, sin
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várr (pron.; °f. ór/vár; pl. órir/várir): our
[6] várar: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘va[...]’ B
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ynði (noun n.; °-s): pleasure
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1. rót (noun f.; °-ar; rǿtr): root
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2. en (conj.): but, and
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ýtr (noun m.): man; launcher
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allr (adj.): all
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góðr (adj.): good
[8] góðs: ‘[...]ds’ B, BFJ, ‘...odṣ’ 399a‑bˣ, ‘[...](o)ds’(?) BRydberg
[8] góðs ‘good’: The beginning of the word is lost in a lacuna, and the initial letter is supplied from Jón Sigurðsson’s suggested reconstruction in an interlinear n. to the 444ˣ transcript.
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með (prep.): with
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kall (noun n.): cry, prayer
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The st. is a rendition of the third verse of Ave maris stella: Solve vincla reis, / profer lumen caecis, / mala nostra pelle, / bona cuncta posce ‘Loosen the chains of the guilty, offer light to the blind, drive away our evil, obtain all good things’. — [3] …: It is not possible to read more than ‘...enda’ in B. It seems likely that the lost word is an adj. or a noun characterising bók ‘book’ (l. 3), perhaps a reference to the Bible. The corresponding Lat. text has profer lumen cæcis ‘offer light to the blind’. Rydberg suggests reconstruction to sanninda gen. of n. pl. sannindi ‘truths’. Kock (NN §1657) reconstructs heilenda, which he takes as f. acc. sg. ‘wholesome’, qualifying bók sg. (l. 4). Kock construes ber fram heilenda ljós blindum, at kjósa bók ‘bring to the blind a wholesome light, (with which) to choose a book’.
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