Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Drápa af Máríugrát 15’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 770-1.
‘Halir á krossinn hilmi* sólar
hófu, en keyrðu í ristr og lófa
stinnoddaða af stáli gadda;
stórlig aungvit á mig fóru.
Hvergi mátti eg fyrir harmi og sorgum
hræra mig, sem dauð eg væra,
angri fyld og lá eg svá leingi;
laugaðig brár og kinnr í tárum.’
‘Halir hófu {hilmi* sólar} á krossinn, en keyrðu stinnoddaða gadda af stáli í ristr og lófa; stórlig aungvit fóru á mig. Eg mátti hvergi hræra mig fyrir harmi og sorgum, sem eg væra dauð, og eg lá svá leingi, fyld angri; laugaðig brár og kinnr í tárum.’
‘Men lifted {the ruler of the sun} [= God (= Christ)] onto the Cross, and drove stiff-pointed spikes of steel into the insteps and the palms; great swoons came upon me. I could not at all move myself because of distress and sorrows, as if I were dead, and I lay thus for a long time, filled with anguish; I washed eyelashes and cheeks in tears.’
Mss: 713(125)
Readings: [1] hilmi*: hilmir 713
Editions: Skj AII, 475, Skj BII, 509, Skald II, 278; Kahle 1898, 58-9, 104, Sperber 1911, 33, Wrightson 2001, 8.
Notes: [1-4]: Cf. Mar (1871, 1006): þeir lyptu hann upp ꜳ krossinn rekinn med hordum iarnnauglum ‘they lifted him up on the Cross, studded with hard nails of iron’. — [1] hilmi* (m. acc. sg.) ‘the ruler’: Hilmir (m. nom. sg.) ‘lord’ (so 713) is ungrammatical, because ‘ruler’ is the object of the cl.
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