Anon Mey 26VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra meyja drápa 26’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 908.
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
yndi ‘delight’
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ynði (noun n.; °-s): pleasure
fríðu ‘fair’
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fríðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): beautiful, fair
[1] fríðu: fögru 713
ættuð ‘family’
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ættaðr (adj./verb p.p.): [family]
vel ‘good’
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vel (adv.): well, very
sú ‘she’
[2] sú: sú er 713
lýðinn ‘the people’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
bætti ‘improved’
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bœta (verb; °-tt-): better, emend, compensate
Sikileyjar ‘of Sicily’
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Sikiley (noun f.): [Sicily]
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
ríki ‘kingdom’
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ríki (noun n.; °-s; -): kingdom, power
prýdd ‘adorned’
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prýða (verb): adorn
og ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
æsku ‘of youth’
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œska (noun f.; °-u): youth
blómi ‘bloom’
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blóm (noun n.; °-s; -): flower
Quinciánus ‘Quintian’
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Kvincíánus (noun m.): [Quintian]
kæru ‘woman’
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1. kæra (noun f.; °-u; -ur): wife, woman
væna ‘beautiful’
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vænn (adj.): beautiful, expected
kvaldi ‘tortured’
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kvelja (verb): torment, torture
sárt ‘painfully’
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sárr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): sore, painful; wounded
er ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
miskunn ‘mercy’
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miskunn (noun f.; °-ar; gen. -a): forgiveness, mercy, grace
dvaldi ‘rejected’
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dvelja (verb; °dvalði; dvalðr/dvalinn (præs. sg. 3. pers. dvel [$1138$], [$1140$])): delay, stay, dwell
fljóðið ‘the woman’
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fljóð (noun n.): woman
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
[7] vill hann: vildi 713
fá ‘’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
til ‘as’
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til (prep.): to
brúðar ‘bride’
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brúðr (noun f.; °brúðar, dat. & acc. brúði; brúðir): woman, bride
fríðri ‘fair’
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fríðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): beautiful, fair
snót ‘maiden’
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snót (noun f.; °; -ir): woman
er ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
móti ‘against’
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móti (prep.): against
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Agatha, with fair delight [and] of a good family, she improved the people in her kingdom of Sicily, adorned with honour and the bloom of youth. Quintian, who rejected mercy, painfully tortured the beautiful woman; he wants the woman as [his] bride; the fair maiden is adamantly against it [lit. (this) was very much against the fair maiden(’s wishes)].
Agatha, a virgin martyr of Catania in Sicily, was the subject of a legend that describes her as of a noble family, pursued by a pagan suitor of consular rank, named Quintian. She rejected him, whereupon he prosecuted her as a Christian and had her subjected to various tortures, from which she eventually died. The most noteworthy of these (see st. 27) was the cutting off of Agatha’s breasts. There are at least four versions of the life of S. Agatha in ON (Unger 1877, I, 1-14; Widding, Bekker-Nielsen and Shook 1963, 298; Cormack 1994, 74; Wolf 2003, 11-17, 155) and evidence for her veneration from the late C13th onwards, particularly in the region round Borgarfjörður (Magnús Már Lárusson 1951).
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