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Anon Mdr 32VII

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.

Anonymous PoemsMáríudrápa
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Leystu með frelsi föstu
frek bönd af lýð sekjum;
bók …enda blindum
ber fram ljós að kjósa.
Braut rektu, frægðar flýtir,
fárs afgerðir várar;
yndis rót, en ýtum
alls bið ðs með kalli.

Leystu með föstu frelsi frek bönd af sekjum lýð; ber fram blindum ljós að kjósa …enda bók. {Flýtir frægðar}, rektu braut afgerðir várar fárs, en, rót yndis, bið ýtum alls ðs með kalli.

Release with certain freedom oppressive bonds from the guilty company; bring forward to the blind a light with which to choose … book. {Deliverer of renown} [= Mary], drive away our sins of fraud and, root of joy, ask for everything that is good for men with ardent prayer [lit. with shouting].

Mss: B(14r), 399a-bˣ

Readings: [3] …enda: ‘[...]enda’ B, ‘(s) [...]enda’(?) BRydberg    [5] flýtir: ‘fly[...]’ B, ‘flýtt(an)’(?) 399a‑bˣ, ‘flýter’ BRydberg, BFJ    [6] várar: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘va[...]’ B    [8] ðs: ‘[...]ds’ B, BFJ, ‘...odṣ’ 399a‑bˣ, ‘[...](o)ds’(?) BRydberg

Editions: Skj AII, 470, Skj BII, 503, Skald II, 275, NN §§1657, 2677, 2983; Rydberg 1907, 38, 57, Attwood 1996a, 110, 311.

Notes: [All]: 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’. — [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.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Attwood, Katrina. 1996a. ‘The Poems of MS AM 757a 4to: An Edition and Contextual Study’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Leeds.
  5. Rydberg, Hugo, ed. 1907. ‘Die geistlichen Drápur und Dróttkvættfragmente des Cod. AM 757 4to.’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Lund. Copenhagen: Møller.
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