Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur II 10’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 708-9.
Mjúkust heyrði mál slík
Máría og fögr tár;
kæran varð kynstór
kviðuð eftir lands sið.
Fæðingar á frumtíð
fögr bar sinn mög;
gjörðiz þá gullskorð
gleðitími kominn með.
Mjúkust Máría heyrði slík mál og fögr tár; kynstór kæran varð kviðuð eftir sið lands. Á frumtíð fæðingar bar fögr mög sinn; þá gjörðiz {gullskorð} gleðitími kominn með.
‘Most merciful Mary heard such pleas and fair tears; the high-born wife became pregnant according to the custom of the country. At the due time of birth the fair one bore her son; then the time of joy had arrived thereby for the gold-prop [WOMAN].’
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Mjúkust heyrðu mál slík
Máría og fögr tár;
kæran varð kynstór
kviðuð eftir lands sið.
Fæðingar á frumtíð
fögr bar sinn mög;
gjörðiz þá gullskorð
gleðitími kominn með.
Miukuzt heyrdi mal slik | Maria ok fo᷎gur tꜳ̋r | kærann vard kynstor | kvidut epter landzsid: | fædingar ꜳ̋ frumtid | fo᷎gur bar sinn mo᷎g | giordizt þa gullskord | gledi time komenn med. |
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Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 5]. En digt om et andet Maria-jærtegn 10: AII, 493, BII, 535, Skald II, 293, NN §§1695, 2247D; Kahle 1898, 39, 99, Sperber 1911, 11, 63, Wrightson 2001, 59.
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