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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Mgr 30VII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Drápa af Máríugrát 30’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 780-1.

Anonymous PoemsDrápa af Máríugrát
293031

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‘Skylt er að tjá, það er mildingr mælti
mána hauðrs í písl við dauða:
“Þystir mig,” kvað herra inn hæsti
hlýrna; má það aldri fyrnaz.
Geira lundar galli blandað
gumna þjóðir skapara bjóða
vínið súrt, en harm í hjarta
hafða eg riett, sem edik krafði.’

‘Er skylt að tjá, það er {mildingr {hauðrs mána}} mælti í písl við dauða: “Mig þystir,” kvað {inn hæsti herra hlýrna}; það má aldri fyrnaz. {Lundar geira}, þjóðir gumna, bjóða skapara súrt vínið blandað galli, sem krafði edik, en eg hafða harm riett í hjarta.’
 
‘‘I am obliged to tell what the ruler of the land of the moon [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)] said in his Passion near death: “I thirst,” said the highest lord of the sun and moon [= God (= Christ)]; that can never be forgotten. The trees of spears [WARRIORS], the crowds of men, offer the Creator the sour wine mixed with gall, as if he had asked for vinegar, and I had torment right in my heart.’

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Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 2]. Máríugrátr 30: AII, 478, BII, 513-14, Skald II, 281, NN §§1664A, 1671, 2680B, 2690; Kahle 1898, 62, Sperber 1911, 37, 75, Wrightson 2001, 15.

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