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Anon Mgr 29VII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Drápa af Máríugrát 29’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 779-80.

Anonymous PoemsDrápa af Máríugrát
282930

‘Heyri þjóð,’ kvað heilug Máría,
‘hvessu eg gáða að orðum þessum;
mier var æ því harmrinn hæri;
herra míns tók líf að þverra.
Læriföðurinn lagði á síðu
Longínus fyrir augum mínum;
næsta bar eg svá nóga í brjósti
nauð, að mier var búið við dauða.

‘Heyri þjóð,’ kvað heilug Máría, ‘hvessu eg gáða að þessum orðum; mier var harmrinn æ því hæri; líf herra míns tók að þverra. Longínus lagði læriföðurinn á síðu fyrir augum mínum; næsta bar eg svá nóga nauð í brjósti, að mier var búið við dauða.

‘May people hear,’ said holy Mary, ‘how I cared about these words; to me the grief was ever the greater; the life of my Lord began to wane. Longinus pierced the teacher in the side before my eyes; next I bore such abundant anguish in my breast that I was prepared for death.

Mss: 713(126)

Editions: Skj AII, 478, Skj BII, 513, Skald II, 281, NN §2831; Kahle 1898, 61-2, Sperber 1911, 37-8, 75, Wrightson 2001, 15.

Notes: [6] Longínus ‘Longinus’: The Roman soldier who speared Christ in the side as he hung on the Cross. For a discussion of Longinus, see Stephens 1883, 326-8. Longinus is not mentioned in Mar (1871, xvii, 1009). In some medieval versions of the story of Christ’s death (e.g. Legenda Aurea ‘Golden Legend’) Longinus is a blind man cured immediately by contact with Christ’s blood.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Sperber, Hans, ed. 1911. Sechs isländische Gedichte legendarischen Inhalts. Uppsala Universitets årsskrift, filosofi, språkvetenskap och historiska vetenskaper 2. Uppsala: Akademische Buchdruckerei Edv. Berling.
  5. Stephens, George. 1883. Prof. S. Bugge’s Studies on Northern Mythology Shortly Examined. London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate.
  6. Wrightson, Kellinde, ed. 2001. Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Verse on the Virgin Mary: Drápa af Maríugrát, Vitnisvísur af Maríu, Maríuvísur I-III. Viking Society for Northern Research Text Series 14. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
  7. Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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