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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Mgr 7VII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Drápa af Máríugrát 7’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 764-5.

Anonymous PoemsDrápa af Máríugrát
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text and translation

Flýðir þú með son þinn síðan,
svanninn, undan Heródes fundi;
váðamaðrinn vildi dauða
vinna honum, ef næði að finna.
Fróni á í faðmi þínum
fögnuðinn bartu allra bragna;
full miskunnin frægri öllu,
fæddir, Máría, hann og klæddir.

Svanninn, síðan flýðir þú með son þinn undan fundi Heródes; váðamaðrinn vildi vinna honum dauða, ef næði að finna. Á fróni bartu {fögnuðinn allra bragna} í faðmi þínum; Máría, full miskunnin frægri öllu, fæddir hann og klæddir.
 
‘Lady, later you fled with your son away from an encounter with Herod; the dangerous man wished to inflict death upon him, if he managed to find him. On earth you carried the delight of all men [= Christ] in your arms; Mary, complete grace more famous than anything, you fed him and clothed him.

notes and context

Mar (1871, 1004) reads ok flydi med honum undann Herode, berandi hann i sinum fadmi til Egiptalandz, ok fæddi huersdagliga med sinum blezudum limum ok haundum ‘and fled with him away from Herod, carrying him in her arms to the land of the Egyptians and fed him every day with her blessed limbs and hands’. — [1-4]: For the flight to Egypt, see Matt. II.13-14.

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Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 2]. Máríugrátr 7: AII, 473-4, BII, 507, Skald II, 277, NN §§1664D, 2680A; Kahle 1898, 57, Sperber 1911, 31, 74, Wrightson 2001, 4.

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