Anon Mv I 16VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 16’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 690.
Flóði á frúinnar klæði
fári spent í tárum,
og með angri nógu
ófæltiliga mælti:
‘Sjáðu, in mjúka móðir,
mína þörf og pínu;
mig skulu meinum kvelja
menn og eldi brenna.
Spent fári flóði í tárum á klæði frúinnar, og mælti ófæltiliga með nógu angri: ‘Sjáðu, in mjúka móðir, mína þörf og pínu; menn skulu kvelja mig meinum og brenna eldi.
Surrounded with danger, she was flooded with tears [which ran] onto the lady’s robe, and she spoke fearlessly with abundant grief: ‘See, gentle mother, my need and anguish; men are going to torture me with injuries and burn me with fire.
Mss: 721(13r)
Editions: Skj AII, 489-90, Skj BII, 529, Skald II, 290, NN §1686; Kahle 1898, 34, 98, Sperber 1911, 4-5, 59, Wrightson 2001, 47.
Notes: [1] á klæði frúinnar ‘[which ran] onto the lady’s robe’: I.e. the Virgin’s robe. For this interpretation, see NN §1686. Skj B deletes the prep. á ‘onto’ and gives the following reading of ll. 1-2: Frúinnar klæði flóði í tárum ‘the lady’s robe was flooded with tears’. According to that version, spent fári ‘surrounded with danger’ is assigned to the following cl. — [4] ófæltiliga ‘fearlessly’: The ending -liga requires an illicit neutralisation in position four, and the poet could have used the short form of the adv. (ófæltila ‘fearlessly’; so Skj B and Skald).
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Sperber, Hans, ed. 1911. Sechs isländische Gedichte legendarischen Inhalts. Uppsala Universitets årsskrift, filosofi, språkvetenskap och historiska vetenskaper 2. Uppsala: Akademische Buchdruckerei Edv. Berling.
- 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.
- Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
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