Anon Mv I 25VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 25’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 696-7.
text and translation
Sungu sætt og leingi
sannfróðir guðs móður
lýðir lof, þá er brúði
litu hvíta þar sitja.
Lietu síðan sætu
seimstalls viðir allir
fara í friði og æru;
fljóð var sátt og þjóðir.
Sannfróðir lýðir sungu lof {móður guðs} sætt og leingi, þá er litu brúði sitja þar hvíta. Síðan lietu {allir viðir {seimstalls}} sætu fara í friði og æru; fljóð og þjóðir var sátt.
‘The truth-knowing people sang the praise of the mother of God [= Mary] sweetly and for a long time when they saw the woman sitting there unblemished [lit. white]. Then all the trees of the gold-seat [ARM > MEN] let the lady go in peace and honour; the woman and the people were reconciled.’
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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.
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AM 721 4° (721) — 13r - 13r
Sungu sætt og leingi
images
sannfróðir guðs móður
lýðr lof, þá er brúði
litu hvíta þar sitja.
Lietu síðan sæta
seimstalls viðir allir
fara í friði og æru;
fljóð var sátt og þjóðir. -
AM 1032 4°x (1032x) — 92v/6 - 92v/13
Svngv sætt ok leingi | sannfrodir gvds modur | lydur lȯf þa̋ er brvdi | litv hvíta þar sítía | letv sidan sæta | soiar stallz vidir allir | fara í fridi ok ærv | flíod uar sa̋tt ok þíodir. |
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editions and texts
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 4]. Et digt om Marias jærtegn 25: AII, 491, BII, 531, Skald II, 291, NN §§2869, 3397K; Kahle 1898, 36, 98-9, Sperber 1911, 7, 60-1, Wrightson 2001, 52.
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