Anon Mv I 19VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 19’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 692.
Út giekk síðan sæta
sótt af mörgum dróttum;
hun var harðri pínu
hreld og leidd að eldi.
Bað hun mjúkláta móður
— menn köstuðu henni —
(sat hun fastliga fjötruð)
friðar (í báli miðju).
Síðan giekk sæta út, sótt af mörgum dróttum; hun var hreld harðri pínu og leidd að eldi. Hun bað mjúkláta móður friðar; menn köstuðu henni; hun sat fastliga fjötruð í miðju báli.
Then the woman went outside, fetched by many people; she was afflicted by harsh torture and led to the fire. She asked the humble mother for peace; men threw her; she sat firmly fettered in the middle of the pyre.
Mss: 721(13r)
Editions: Skj AII, 490, Skj BII, 530, Skald II, 290-1; Kahle 1898, 35, 98, Sperber 1911, 5, 59, Wrightson 2001, 49.
Notes: [6] menn köstuðu henni ‘men threw her’: This must be understood as ‘men threw her into the pyre’. However, í miðju báli ‘in the middle of the pyre’ (l. 8) is in the dat. and must be construed with sat ‘sat’ (l. 7). Wrightson takes this prepositional phrase with köstuðu ‘threw’, which is ungrammatical (the case required is the acc.). The corresponding places in Mar (1871, 278, 1203) read: [e]r hun þa bvndin ok vppkavstuð i elldinn ‘she is then bound and thrown up into the fire’; [h]un er bundin, og hladit ollum megin vpp i hia henni med smꜳm vidum ok reyr, sidan er lagdr i elldr ‘she is bound, and on all sides around her small branches and reeds are stacked up, and then fire is placed in it’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 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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