Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur II 12’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 709-10.
Unnandi eitt sinn
að jóði sínu liek fljóð;
sjúkan kendi hun sárleik
sveini gjöra lífsmein.
Sútafull í sitt skaut
svanni lagði mög þann,
svá að barni bani forn
búinn þótti vera nú.
Eitt sinn liek unnandi fljóð að jóði sínu; hun kendi sjúkan sárleik gjöra sveini lífsmein. Sútafull svanni lagði þann mög í skaut sitt, svá að forn bani nú þótti vera búinn barni.
One time the loving lady was playing with her child; she noticed a sickening pain harming the life of the boy [lit. causing the boy life-harm]. Full of worry the woman laid the son on her lap, while old death now seemed to be ready for the child.
Mss: 713(86), 721(13v)
Readings: [1] Unnandi: Unandi 721 [5] sitt skaut: so 721, sinn klút 713
Editions: Skj AII, 494, Skj BII, 535, Skald II, 293, Metr. §§9A, 14A, B; Kahle 1898, 40, 99, Sperber 1911, 11-12, 63, Wrightson 2001, 60.
Notes: [1] unnandi (f. nom. sg.) ‘loving’: Unandi ‘thriving’ (so 721) makes the l. one syllable too short (resolution in position one). — [5] sútafull (f. nom. sg.) ‘full of worry’: This adj. modifies svanni (m. nom. sg.) ‘woman’, and the f. case of the adj. must reflect the gender of the woman rather than the gender of the noun. For a similar construction, see Mv I 7/4. — [5] í sitt skaut ‘on her lap’: Í sín klút ‘in her cloth’ (so 713) is syntactically possible but klút forms an illicit aðalhending with sút. — [7] svá að ‘while’: For this meaning of svá að lit. ‘so that’, see Fritzner IV: svá 3b. — [7] forn bani ‘old death’: This might refer to the devil (see LP: 1. bani).
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