Anon Mv II 13VII
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.
Mss: 713(86), 721(13v)
Readings: [4] líkami: líkamr 721
Editions: Skj AII, 494, Skj BII, 535, Skald II, 293, Metr. §14B; Kahle 1898, 40, 99, Sperber 1911, 12, 63, Wrightson 2001, 61.
Notes: [All]: For prose parallels to this st., see Schottmann (1973, 380). — [4] líkami ‘body’: Líkamr ‘body’ (so 721) is also syntactically and metrically possible. — [8] stár ‘stands’: This is the 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic. of a verb stá ‘stand’ (instead of the regular standa ‘stand’), a late, analogous formation (cf. gá ‘go’ and ganga ‘go’; see ANG §504, Anm. 4). Stá ‘stand’ is earliest attested in prose in 1459, and it also occurs in old rímur (see Schottmann 1973, 352).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- ANG = Noreen, Adolf. 1923. Altnordische Grammatik I: Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik (Laut- und Flexionslehre) unter Berücksichtigung des Urnordischen. 4th edn. Halle: Niemeyer. 1st edn. 1884. 5th unrev. edn. 1970. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- Schottmann, Hans. 1973. Die isländische Mariendichtung. Untersuchungen zur volkssprachigen Mariendichtung des Mittelalters. Münchner germanistische Beiträge 9. Munich: Fink.
- 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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