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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Mfl 2III

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.

Anonymous PoemsMáríuflokkr
12

text and translation

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].

notes and context

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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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Anonyme digte og vers [XII], G [4]. Máríuflokkr 2: AI, 627, BI, 634, Skald I, 308, NN §1271; SnE 1848-87, II, 500, III, 181-2.

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