Anon Mey 27VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra meyja drápa 27’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 908-9.
Ekki gietr hann jungfrú lokkað
ótta þraungda úr faðmi dróttins;
ristil liet við reingdar ástir
reiður jarl fyr dómstól leiða.
Bæði liet hann brjóst af fljóði
— bundin stóð hun píslum undir —
spreingja út með spennitaungum;
sprakkinn gjörði drottni þakkir.
Hann gietr ekki lokkað ótta þraungda jungfrú úr faðmi dróttins; jarl, reiður við reingdar ástir, liet leiða ristil fyr dómstól. Hann liet bæði brjóst spreingja út af fljóði með spennitaungum; hun stóð bundin undir píslum; sprakkinn gjörði þakkir drottni.
He cannot entice the fear-oppressed maiden from the embrace of the Lord; the earl, angry because of rejected love, had the lady brought before the judgement seat. He had both breasts ruptured from the woman with forceps; she stood bound during the tortures; the woman gave thanks to the Lord.
Mss: 721(11v), 713(25)
Readings: [2] þraungda: þreyngdr 721, 713 [3] reingdar: reyndar 721, 713
Editions: Skj AII, 532, Skj BII, 589, Skald II, 325.
Notes: [2] dróttins ‘of the Lord’: Although the vowel of the first syllable is probably short elsewhere in Mey, it must be long here to provide aðalhending with ótta (see Björn K. Þórolfsson 1925, 6). So also 47/8 drótt : -vótt.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Internal references
- Kirsten Wolf 2007, ‘ Anonymous, Heilagra meyja drápa’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 891-930. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1026> (accessed 23 April 2024)
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