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Anon Mv I 14VII

Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 14’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 689.

Anonymous PoemsMáríuvísur I
131415

Öls bað æskiselja
angri mædd að ganga
mörk í Máríukirkju
menn, er hana skulu brenna,
þó að mjúklátri meyju
mild auðar-Bil vildi
sínar sorgir greina;
senn veittu þeir henni.

{Æskiselja öls}, mædd angri, bað menn, er skulu brenna hana, að ganga mörk í Máríukirkju, þó að {mild auðar-Bil} vildi greina sorgir sínar mjúklátri meyju; senn veittu þeir henni.

{The wishing-willow of ale} [WOMAN], weary with grief, asked the men, who are to burn her, to be allowed to walk through the forest to the Church of Mary, when {the pious wealth-Bil <goddess>} [WOMAN] wished to explain her sorrows to the gentle Virgin; at once they granted her that.

Mss: 721(13r), 1032ˣ(87v)

Readings: [1] Öls: so 1032ˣ, ‘[...]’ 721    [3] mörk: merk 1032ˣ

Editions: Skj AII, 489, Skj BII, 529, Skald II, 290, NN §1685; Kahle 1898, 34, 98, Sperber 1911, 4, 58-9, Wrightson 2001, 46.

Notes: [3] mörk (f. acc. sg.) ‘through the forest’: This is an acc. of place (see NS §96; NN §1685). Skj B adopts the 1032ˣ variant merk (f. nom. sg.) ‘remarkable’, which is taken as an adj. modifying selja (f. nom. sg.) ‘willow’ (l. 1). Sperber retains mörk, which he construes as a noun (acc. pl.) lit. ‘signs’ with Máríukirkju ‘the Church of Mary’ (eine bemerkenswerte Kirche ‘a marvel of a church’) in accordance with Mv II, 13. — [5] þó að ‘when’: For the use of þó að (lit. ‘although’) with a temporal meaning, see LP: þó 8. Earlier eds (except Kahle and Sperber) resolve the abbreviation as því að ‘because’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
  3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
  5. LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
  6. Sperber, Hans, ed. 1911. Sechs isländische Gedichte legendarischen Inhalts. Uppsala Universitets årsskrift, filosofi, språkvetenskap och historiska vetenskaper 2. Uppsala: Akademische Buchdruckerei Edv. Berling.
  7. 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.
  8. NS = Nygaard, Marius. 1906. Norrøn syntax. Kristiania (Oslo): Aschehoug. Rpt. 1966.
  9. Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
  10. Internal references
  11. (forthcoming), ‘ Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson, The Third Grammatical Treatise’ in Tarrin Wills (ed.), The Third Grammatical Treatise. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=32> (accessed 28 March 2024)
  12. Kari Ellen Gade 2007, ‘ Anonymous, Máríuvísur II’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 701-17. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1032> (accessed 28 March 2024)
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