Anon Mey 4VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra meyja drápa 4’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 894.
text and translation
Aðrar þoldu Jésú brúðir
ýmsa nauð í grimmum dauða,
sætur Krists og sjaldan grietu
sárligt mein í þrautum neinum.
Saklausust við mótgjörð mikla
Máría þoldi gjörvöll sárin
öndin hrein, þau er Jésús kendi
yfirvoldugr á sínu holdi.
Aðrar brúðir Jésú þoldu ýmsa nauð í grimmum dauða, og sætur Krists grietu sjaldan sárligt mein í neinum þrautum. Máría, saklausust hrein öndin, þoldi við mikla mótgjörð gjörvöll sárin, þau er yfirvoldugr Jésús kendi á sínu holdi.
‘Other brides of Jesus endured various kinds of suffering in a cruel death, and the women of Christ seldom bewailed painful harm in any tortures. Mary, most innocent pure soul, endured in the face of great assault all the wounds which all-powerful Jesus felt in his flesh.’
notes and context
The scribe of 721 wrote ll. 1-7 (öndin) on fol. 8v and continued at the top of what is now – erroneously – fol. 11r (see Introduction). — [6-8]: The poet plays here on the commonplace medieval motif of Mary as the mater dolorosa, watching and taking upon herself the agony of her son on the Cross. The notion that Mary suffered a parallel passion to Christ was a significant theme of late medieval devotion (see LM: ‘Compassio BVM’).
readings
sources
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 721 4° (721) — 8v - 11r
imagesAdrar þoldv | iesu brudir. ymsa naud i grimmvm dauda· sætur kristz ok síalldan gretu· särligt | mein i þrautvm neinum· / saklavsvzt vid motgiord micla· maría þoldí giorvo᷎ll särínn aunden || hrein þau er jesus kendí· yfir volldo᷎gr ä sinu holldí· //
(KW)
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AM 713 4° (713) — 23/13 - 23/15
Aðrar þoldu Jésú brúðir
images
ýmsa nauð í grimmum dauða,
sætur Krists og sjaldan grietu
sárlig mein í þrautum neinum.
Saklausust við mótgjörð mikla
Máría þoldi gjörvöll sárin
dauðan hrein, þá er er Jésús kendi
yfirvoldugr á sínu holdi.
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