Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 18’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 691-2.
‘Fel eg nú, frú mín sælust,’
fljóð mælir svá rjóðast,
‘lífs orðinnar æfi
enda þier á hendi.
Gangi öll, þó að illa
eg hafi gjört að segja,
málin, meyja heilög,
mín að vilja þínum.’
‘Nú fel eg, sælust frú mín,’ svá mælir rjóðast fljóð, ‘enda lífs orðinnar æfi á hendi þier. Gangi öll málin mín, heilög meyja, að vilja þínum, þó að eg hafi gjört illa að segja.’
‘‘Now I commend, my most blessed lady,’ thus speaks the most blushing woman, ‘the end of my life’s spent days into your hands. May all my matters, holy Virgin, proceed according to your will, even though I have told a terrible tale [lit. spoken ill].’’
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‘Fel eg nú, frú mín sælust,’
fljóð mælir svá rjóðast,
‘líf orðinnar æfi
enda þier á hendi.
Gangi öll, þó að illa
eg hafi gjört að segja,
málin, meyja heilög,
mín að vilja þínum.’
Fel ek nv frv mín sælvzt | flíod mælír svo ríodazt | líf ordínar æfí | enda þier a̋ hendí | gangi o᷎ll þȯ at ílla | ek hafí giortt at seígía | malín meyía heilo᷎g | min at vílía þínvm. |
(EB)
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 4]. Et digt om Marias jærtegn 18: AII, 490, BII, 530, Skald II, 290, NN §1687; Kahle 1898, 35, 98, Sperber 1911, 5, 59, Wrightson 2001, 48.
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