Anon Mey 48VII
Kirsten Wolf (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Heilagra meyja drápa 48’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 920-1.
Kristína ‘Christina’
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Kristína (noun f.): [Christina]
fekk ‘received’
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2. fá (verb; °fǽr; fekk, fengu; fenginn): get, receive
kunn ‘known’
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kunnr (adj.): known (?)
að ‘for’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
ástum ‘charity’
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ást (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): love
kaldar ‘cruel’
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kaldr (adj.; °compar. -ari): cold
þrautir ‘tortures’
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þraut (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): struggle
barn ‘child’
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barn (noun n.; °-s; bǫrn/barn(JKr 345³), dat. bǫrnum/barnum): child
að ‘as’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
aldri ‘’
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aldr (noun m.; °aldrs, dat. aldri; aldrar): life, age
faðir ‘father’
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faðir (noun m.): father
hennar ‘her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
liet ‘had’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
blindr ‘blind’
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blindr (adj.; °compar. -ari): blind
bræði ‘rage’
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bræði (noun f.; °-): [violence, rage]
beygja ‘twisted’
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2. beygja (verb; °beygði): bend down, twist
[4] beygja: so 713, beyja 721
að ‘around’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
hálsi ‘neck’
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hals (noun m.; °hals, dat. -i; -ar): neck
meyjar ‘of the maiden’
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mær (noun f.; °meyjar, dat. meyju; meyjar): maiden
[4] meyjar: ‘m[...]jar’ 713
Harm ‘pain’
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1. harmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sorrow, grief
aukandi ‘Increasing’
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1. auka (verb; °eykr; jók, jóku/juku): (str. intrans.) increase
hvössum ‘with sharp’
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hvass (adj.; °-an; -ari, -astr): keen, sharp
krókum ‘hooks’
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krókr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): hook
hvítan ‘white’
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hvítr (adj.; °-an; -ari, -astr): white
bauð ‘ordered’
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bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
líkam ‘body’
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líkamr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): body
slíta ‘be torn’
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slíta (verb): to tear
veldu ‘boiled’
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3. vella (verb): boil - weak, transitive
[7] veldu: veldu þeir 721, ‘ve[...]’ 713
síðan ‘later’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
vífið ‘woman’
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víf (noun n.): woman, wife
milda ‘gracious’
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mildr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): mild, gentle, gracious, generous
virðar ‘men’
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virðr (noun m.): man
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
glóanda ‘red-hot’
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glóa (verb): glow
eiri ‘copper’
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eir (noun n.): copper coin?
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Christina, known for her charity, received cruel tortures as a child [lit. a child in age]; blind with rage her father had iron twisted around the neck of the maiden. Increasing the pain he ordered [that] her white body be torn with sharp hooks; later those men boiled the gracious woman in red-hot copper.
S. Christina, celebrated in sts 48-9, seems not to have been the object of a cult in Iceland, though Kristín is recorded as a personal name from C14th (Cormack 1994, 47). The legend of S. Christina is very similar to that of S. Barbara (Wolf 2000, 3-4), both virgins being born of noble families and the objects of many men’s attention, both shut up in towers by sadistic fathers. Christina’s father was named Urbanus. While in the tower Christina was converted to Christianity by the Holy Spirit and, when later she smashed her father’s idols, she was tortured by Urbanus and two judges, Elius and Julianus (cf. st. 49/1).
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