Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur I 6’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 682-3.
Vóx hræðilig huxan,
hitt, er allir kvitta,
myndar margvíss fjandi,
milli fólksins illa.
Sagði sveit, að lagðiz
seimkennandi að henni;
því mundi svá sendi
sax kunnum frú unna.
Hræðilig huxan vóx milli fólksins illa; hitt, er allir kvitta, myndar margvíss fjandi. Sveit sagði, að {seimkennandi} lagðiz að henni; því mundi frú unna {kunnum sendi sax} svá.
‘A terrible thought grew among the wicked people; that, which they all gossip about, a very crafty devil creates. The crowd said that the gold-tester [MAN] lay with her; [and] therefore [that] the lady must love the famous sender of the sword [WARRIOR] so much.’
[5]: The l. contains aðalhending (-agð- : -agð-) rather than the expected skothending.
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Vóx hræðilig huxan,
hitt, er allir kvitta,
†meyndar† margvíss fjandi,
milli fólksins illa.
Sagði sveit, að lagðiz
seimkennandi að henni;
því mundi svá †semdí†
†sa̋r† kunnum frú unna.
Voxx hrædílíg huxan | hítt er aller kvítta | meyndar marg víís fiandí | mílli folksíns ílla | sagdí sveít at lagdízt | seim kenandí at henni | þvi mvndi svo somdí | sa̋r kvnnvm frv vnna. |
(EB)
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 4]. Et digt om Marias jærtegn 6: AII, 488, BII, 527, Skald II, 289; Kahle 1898, 32, 97, Sperber 1911, 2, 57, Wrightson 2001, 43.
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