Anon Mgr 41VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Drápa af Máríugrát 41’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 787-8.
Mána strandar munki einum
móðir birti dróttins fróðum
fagnaði sína fimm, er þegnar
frægðarsvinnir jafnan minnaz.
Líkn og hjálp tók lýðs að reikna
lyndishrein með gleði og yndi
þýð og mild fyrir þessum bróður;
þetta greinir, sú er eyðir meinum.
{Móðir {dróttins {mána strandar}}} birti fimm fagnaði sína einum fróðum munki, er frægðarsvinnir þegnar minnaz jafnan. {Líkn og hjálp lýðs}, lyndishrein, þýð og mild, tók að reikna með gleði og yndi fyrir þessum bróður; þetta greinir, sú er eyðir meinum.
{The mother {of the lord {of the moon’s beach}}} [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ) > = Mary] revealed her five joys to one wise monk, as fame-wise men always recall. {The mercy and salvation of people} [= Mary], pure of mind, kind and gentle, began to count with joy and pleasure before this brother; [she] describes this, who puts an end to evil.
Mss: 713(127-128), 1032ˣ(74v), 920ˣ(209v)
Readings: [8] meinum: so 1032ˣ, 920ˣ, ‘mein[...]’ 713
Editions: Skj AII, 480, Skj BII, 516, Skald II, 283, NN §2692; Kahle 1898, 64, Sperber 1911, 39, Wrightson 2001, 21.
Notes: [1-2] einum fróðum munki ‘to one wise monk’: The identity of the monk is unknown. — [3] fimm fagnaði sína ‘her five joys’: This refers to the Conception (43), the Nativity (44/1-4), the Resurrection (44/5-8), the Ascension (45/1-4) and the Assumption of Mary (45/5-8). See also Introduction. — [8] þetta greinir ‘[she] describes this’: Skald emends to an unattested adv. greint ‘clearly’, and takes þetta ‘this’ as the object of reikna ‘count’ (l. 5) (see NN §2692).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Sperber, Hans, ed. 1911. Sechs isländische Gedichte legendarischen Inhalts. Uppsala Universitets årsskrift, filosofi, språkvetenskap och historiska vetenskaper 2. Uppsala: Akademische Buchdruckerei Edv. Berling.
- 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.
- Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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