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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.

Anonymous PoemsDrápa af Máríugrát
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‘Veitum lof,’ kvað göfugur gætir
góðra klerka, ‘dróttins móður;
lærðir menn og lýða ferðir,
laugum brár og kinnr í tárum.
Mætust, bið eg, að mier skuli veita
móðir dróttins alt ið góða
jungfrú glödd, er Jésús fæddi,
enn að lýsa heiminn þenna.’

‘Veitum lof {móður dróttins},’ kvað {göfugur gætir góðra klerka}; ‘lærðir menn og ferðir lýða, laugum brár og kinnr í tárum. Eg bið, að {mætust móðir dróttins}, glödd jungfrú, er fæddi Jésús, skuli veita mier alt ið góða, enn að lýsa þenna heiminn.’

‘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.’

Mss: 713(124), 1032ˣ(58v-59v), 920ˣ(205v)

Readings: [2] móður: so 1032ˣ, 920ˣ, ‘[...]’ 713    [3] lærðir: ‘[...]da’ 713, ‘l..da’ 1032ˣ, ‘.....da’ 920ˣ    [5] Mætust: so 1032ˣ, 920ˣ, ‘[...]’ 713    [7] glödd er: so 920ˣ, ‘[...]’ 713, ‘glödd er’ 1032ˣ

Editions: Skj AII, 473, Skj BII, 506, Skald II, 277, NN §§1663, 3354B; Kahle 1898, 56, 104, Sperber 1911, 31, 73-4, Wrightson 2001, 3.

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’. — [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-). — [8] enn ‘yet again’: It is also possible that enn means ‘further’ in the present context.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. Sperber, Hans, ed. 1911. Sechs isländische Gedichte legendarischen Inhalts. Uppsala Universitets årsskrift, filosofi, språkvetenskap och historiska vetenskaper 2. Uppsala: Akademische Buchdruckerei Edv. Berling.
  5. 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.
  6. Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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