Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 13’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 688-9.
Grietu meyjar mætar
minniligr sem kvinna
flokkrinn; kallmenn klökkva,
kvöl barmandi arma.
Dregin var drós til skógar
döpr og mædd; svá hræddiz,
— griet sárliga sæta
synd — er bálið kyndu.
Mætar meyjar sem minniligr flokkrinn kvinna grietu; kallmenn klökkva, barmandi arma kvöl. Drós var dregin til skógar, döpr og mædd; hræddiz svá, er kyndu bálið; sæta griet synd sárliga.
‘Glorious maidens as well as the memorable group of women wept; men sob, pitying the miserable torment. The woman was dragged to the forest, mournful and weary; she feared so much when they kindled the pyre; the lady wept for her sin bitterly.’
For a discussion of this st. and its lack of prose parallels, see Schottmann (1973, 365).
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Grietu †[...]iar† mætar
†minni[...]† sem kvinna
flokkrinn; kallmenn klökkva,
kvöl †bar[...]ndi† arma.
Dregin var drós †[...]† skógar
döpr og mædd; svá hræddiz,
— griet sárliga sæta
synd — er bálið kyndir.
Grietu †m...nar† mætar
minnilig sem kvinna
flokkrinn; kallmenn klökkva,
kvöl †bar...andi† arma.
Dregin var drós til skógar
döpr og mædd; svá hræddiz,
— griet sárliga sæta
synd — er bálið kyndu.
Gretv m...nar[3] mætar | mínílig sva[4] kuína | flockurín kallmen klauckva | kvol bar...andí arma | dreígín var dros til skȯgar | do᷎pur ok mædd er hræddízt || gret sarlíga svarta | synd er ba̋lít kyndir. |
(EB)
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 4]. Et digt om Marias jærtegn 13: AII, 489, BII, 529, Skald II, 290; Kahle 1898, 33-4, 98, Sperber 1911, 4, 58, Wrightson 2001, 46.
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