Anon Mgr 49VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Drápa af Máríugrát 49’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 793.
Þurt er mier í hring um hjarta,
hvarma lón þó að renni af sjónum;
svik eru slíkt og synda auki
sárr, ef hrósa eg slíkum tárum.
Hlotnaz láttu hjálparvatnið,
hreggskríns jöfurr, svá nægi mínu;
hryni sú mier með helgum bænum
hvarma laugin út af augum.
Er þurt í hring um hjarta mier, þó að {lón hvarma} renni af sjónum; slíkt eru svik og sárr auki synda, ef eg hrósa slíkum tárum. {Jöfurr {hreggskríns}}, láttu hjálparvatnið hlotnaz, svá nægi mínu; {sú laugin hvarma} hryni út af augum mier með helgum bænum.
It is dry around my heart, although {the pool of the eyelids} [TEARS] runs from my eyes; such is the deceit and bitter increase of sins, if I praise such tears. {Prince {of the storm-shrine}} [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)], let the salvation-water be allotted, so that it is sufficient for me; may {that cleansing-water of the eyelids} [TEARS] flow out of my eyes with holy prayers.
Mss: 713(128)
Editions: Skj AII, 482, Skj BII, 518-19, Skald II, 284; Kahle 1898, 66, Sperber 1911, 41, 76, Wrightson 2001, 25.
Notes: [6] mínu (n. dat. sg.) ‘me’: Lit. ‘mine’. The verb gnægja (gnægi 3rd pers. sg. pres. subj.) ‘suffice, be sufficient’ is used impersonally with a dat. object (see Fritzner: nœgja). Mínu ‘mine’ must refer to hjálparvatnið ‘salvation-water’ (l. 5), the sense being that the poet asks that enough ‘salvation-water’ should be allotted so that he can weep tears of true penitence, along with holy prayers, for all the sins he has committed.
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.
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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