Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur II 13’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 710.
Síðan lá sveinn dauðr;
sætan af trega grætr
leingi, meðan lá ungr
líkami á börum slíkr.
Auðar þellan óglöð
annan dag flytr hann,
þar er kirkju mikið mark
Máríu í borg stár.
Síðan lá sveinn dauðr; sætan grætr af trega leingi, meðan slíkr ungr líkami lá á börum. {Óglöð þellan auðar} flytr hann annan dag, þar er mikið mark kirkju Máríu stár í borg.
‘Then the boy lay dead; the lady weeps with sorrow for a long time while such a young body lay on the bier. The unhappy fir of wealth [WOMAN] moves him the next day to where the mighty sign of the Church of Mary stands in the city.’
For prose parallels to this st., see Schottmann (1973, 380).
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Síðan lá sveinn dauðr;
sætan af trega grætr
leingi, meðan lá ungr
líkamr á börum slíkr.
Auðar þellan óglöð
annan dag flytr hann,
þar er kirkju mikið mark
Máríu í borg stár.
Sidan lꜳ̋ sueinn daudur | sætan af trega grætur | leingi medan lꜳ ungur | likame ꜳ baurum slikur: | audar þellann oglaud | annan dag flytur hann | þar er kirkiu mickit marck | Mariu i borg star. |
(EB)
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 5]. En digt om et andet Maria-jærtegn 13: AII, 494, BII, 535, Skald II, 293, Metr. §14B; Kahle 1898, 40, 99, Sperber 1911, 12, 63, Wrightson 2001, 61.
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