Anon Mv I 26VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 26’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 697.
Hrings nam heim að ganga
Hlín í kirkju sína;
þakkar líf og lukku
lút þreyjandi meyju.
Skrifa liet baugs á briefi
brík jartegnir slíkar,
að Máríe meyjar
margfaldi lof aldir.
{Hlín hrings} nam að ganga heim í kirkju sína; lút, þreyjandi þakkar meyju líf og lukku. {Brík baugs} liet skrifa slíkar jartegnir á briefi, að aldir margfaldi lof Máríe meyjar.
{The Hlín <goddess> of the ring} [WOMAN] proceeded to go home into her church; kneeling [lit. stooped], yearning, she thanks the Virgin for her life and luck. {The plank of the ring} [WOMAN] had such miracles written in a document, so that people may multiply the praise of the Virgin Mary.
Mss: 721(13r)
Readings: [4] meyju: meyja 721
Editions: Skj AII, 491, Skj BII, 531-2, Skald II, 291; Kahle 1898, 36, 99, Sperber 1911, 7, 61, Wrightson 2001, 52.
Notes: [3] lukku (f. acc. sg.) ‘luck’: This is a late loanword from MLG (ge)lucke ‘luck’ (see AEW: lukka). — [4] meyju (f. dat. sg.) ‘the Virgin’: Meyja (f. nom. sg.) ‘the maiden’ (so 721) could only be construed as the subject of the verb þakkar ‘thanks’ (l. 3): ‘the kneeling, yearning maiden gave thanks for her life and luck’. However, the ms. reading appears to be a lectio facilior (the noun is preceded by two adjs in the f. nom. sg.).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- AEW = Vries, Jan de. 1962. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2nd rev. edn. Rpt. 1977. Leiden: Brill.
- 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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