Anon Mgr 45VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Drápa af Máríugrát 45’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 790-1.
‘Guð stie upp af grýttu láði
gæzkufimr á bjarta himna;
lofaður sitr um aldr og æfi
eilífr á veg skepnu deilir.
Ítarligr kom mier á móti
minn son guð með allri sinni
hirð ágætri himna dýrðar;
* hóf mig upp á sínum lófa.
‘Gæzkufimr guð stie upp af grýttu láði á bjarta himna; {eilífr, lofaður deilir skepnu} sitr um aldr og æfi á veg. Ítarligr son minn, guð, kom á móti mier með {allri sinni ágætri hirð dýrðar himna}; * hóf mig upp á lófa sínum.
‘Merciful [lit. goodness-deft] God ascended from the graveled ground into the bright heavens; {the eternal, praised ordainer of creation} [= God (= Christ)] sits forever and ever in glory. My magnificent son, God, came to meet me with {all his famous retinue of the splendour of the heavens} [ANGELS]; he lifted me up in his palm.
Mss: 713(128)
Readings: [8] * hóf: hann hóf 713
Editions: Skj AII, 481, Skj BII, 517-18, Skald II, 283-4; Kahle 1898, 65, Sperber 1911, 40, 76, Wrightson 2001, 23.
Notes: [1-5]: This is the fourth supreme joy of Mary, her Ascension, see Note to 41/3. — [2-3]: These ll. recall Leið 17/4 and Lil 1/7. — [5-8]: The Assumption of Mary is her fifth supreme joy. — [6] son ‘son’: For this nom. form, see Note to 6/1. — [8] * hóf ‘lifted’: Ms. 713 includes hann ‘he’ at the beginning of the l., but the pron. makes the l. both unmetrical and hypermetrical, and it has been omitted in earlier eds (except Wrightson).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 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.
- Internal references
- Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Leiðarvísan 17’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 156.
- Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Lilja 1’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 562-3.
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