Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuflokkr 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 508.
Busti beggja rista
barmskúr ofan hvarma
fljóðs á frægja meiða
fjǫlglyggs himins tyggja.
Vann, sús kœnst es kvenna,
kvǫlbannaðar manna
él*um undirstóla
iltún þvegit brúna.
{{Hvarma barm}skúr} fljóðs busti ofan á {frægja meiða beggja rista} {tyggja fjǫlglyggs himins}. Vann, sús es kœnst kvenna, þvegit {iltún} {kvǫlbannaðar manna} {él*um {undirstóla brúna}}.
‘The shower of the edge of eyelids [(lit. ‘edge-showers of eyelids’) EYES > TEARS] of the woman streamed down on the famous trees of both insteps [FEET] of the lord of the windswept heaven [= Christ]. She, who is the wisest of women, washed the footsole-yards [FEET] of the torment-banisher of men [= Christ] with storms of the support-chairs of brows [EYES > TEARS]. ’
As st. 1 above.
This stanza also contains intricate kennings for tears and body parts as well as an unconventional kenning for Christ (kvǫlbǫnnuðr manna ‘torment-banisher of men’, l. 6; cf. Note to st. 1/3), and Mary is referred to as fljóð ‘woman’ (l. 3) and kœnst kvenna ‘wisest of women’ (l. 5) without any religious overtones (see Introduction and Note to st. 1/2). — [7]: The line recalls Bragi Frag 6/3.
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Busti beggja rista
barmskúr ofan hvarma
fljóðs á frægja meiða
fjǫlglyggs himin tyggja.
Vann, sús kœnst es kvenna,
kvǫlbannaðar manna
eljun undirstóla
iltún þvegit brúna.
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