Anon Mgr 5VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Drápa af Máríugrát 5’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 762-3.
Veitum ‘Let us give’
kvað ‘said’
göfugur ‘the glorious’
kennings
göfugur gætir góðra klerka;‘the glorious guardian of good clerics; ’
= BISHOP = Augustine
the glorious guardian of good clerics; → BISHOP = Augustine
gætir ‘guardian’
kennings
göfugur gætir góðra klerka;‘the glorious guardian of good clerics; ’
= BISHOP = Augustine
the glorious guardian of good clerics; → BISHOP = Augustine
góðra ‘of good’
kennings
göfugur gætir góðra klerka;‘the glorious guardian of good clerics; ’
= BISHOP = Augustine
the glorious guardian of good clerics; → BISHOP = Augustine
klerka ‘clerics’
kennings
göfugur gætir góðra klerka;‘the glorious guardian of good clerics; ’
= BISHOP = Augustine
the glorious guardian of good clerics; → BISHOP = Augustine
dróttins ‘of the Lord’
dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
kennings
móður dróttins,’‘to the mother of the Lord,’ ’
= Mary
to the mother of the Lord,’ → Mary
kennings
móður dróttins,’‘to the mother of the Lord,’ ’
= Mary
to the mother of the Lord,’ → Mary
lærðir ‘learned’
lærðr (adj./verb p.p.): learned
[3] lærðir: ‘[...]da’ 713, ‘l..da’ 1032ˣ, ‘.....da’ 920ˣ
notes
[3] lærðir (m. nom. pl.) ‘learned’: <ær> can be conjectured from the internal rhyme (-ærð- : -erð-). Lærða (m. acc. pl.) ‘learned’ (so all mss) is ungrammatical, because the adj. modifies menn (m. nom. pl.) ‘men’.
menn ‘men’
lýða ‘of people’
ferðir ‘crowds’
laugum ‘let us wash’
brár ‘eyelashes’
kinnr ‘cheeks’
í ‘in’
tárum ‘tears’
Mætust ‘the most magnificent’
mætr (adj.; °compar. -ri/-ari, superl. -astr): honoured, respected
[5] Mætust: so 1032ˣ, 920ˣ, ‘[...]’ 713
kennings
mætust móðir dróttins,‘the most magnificent mother of the Lord, ’
= Mary
the most magnificent mother of the Lord, → Mary
að ‘that’
skuli ‘should’
veita ‘grant’
móðir ‘mother’
kennings
mætust móðir dróttins,‘the most magnificent mother of the Lord, ’
= Mary
the most magnificent mother of the Lord, → Mary
dróttins ‘of the Lord’
dróttinn (noun m.; °dróttins, dat. dróttni (drottini [$1049$]); dróttnar): lord, master
kennings
mætust móðir dróttins,‘the most magnificent mother of the Lord, ’
= Mary
the most magnificent mother of the Lord, → Mary
alt ‘everything’
góða ‘good’
jungfrú ‘Virgin’
glödd ‘the joyous’
2. glaðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): cheerful, glad
[7] glödd er: so 920ˣ, ‘[...]’ 713, ‘glödd er’ 1032ˣ
notes
[7] glödd (f. nom. sg.) ‘joyous’: P.p. of the verb gleðja ‘gladden’ used an as adj. Wrightson gives glöð ‘joyous’ (f. nom. sg. of glaðr), which violates the internal rhyme (-ödd : -ædd-).
Jésús ‘to Jesus’
enn ‘yet again’
notes
[8] enn ‘yet again’: It is also possible that enn means ‘further’ in the present context.
lýsa ‘illuminate’
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‘Let us give praise to the mother of the Lord [= Mary],’ said the glorious guardian of good clerics [BISHOP = Augustine]; ‘learned men and crowds of people, let us wash eyelashes and cheeks in tears. I ask that the most magnificent mother of the Lord [= Mary], the joyous Virgin who gave birth to Jesus, should grant me everything good, yet again to illuminate this world.’
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