Anon Mv II 24VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur II 24’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 717.
Þykkjumz eg í þinn flokk
þeygi kunna, guðs mey
skærust, sem skylt er,
skilin orð að fá til.
Verði þier valin dýrð,
vífa sæmdin, eilíf
um alla heims höll
haldin með guðs vald.
{Skærust mey guðs}, eg þykkjumz þeygi kunna að fá til skilin orð í flokk þinn, sem er skylt. Verði valin, eilíf dýrð haldin þier, {sæmdin vífa}, um {alla höll heims} með vald guðs.
{Purest Virgin of God} [= Mary], I do not consider myself at all able to procure clear words for your poem, as obliged. May choice, eternal honour be maintained for you, {the glory of women} [= Mary], throughout {the entire hall of the world} [UNIVERSE] by the power of God.
Mss: 713(87), 721(14r)
Editions: Skj AII, 495-6, Skj BII, 538, Skald II, 295, Metr. §14A; Kahle 1898, 42, 100, Sperber 1911, 14, 64, Wrightson 2001, 66.
Notes: [All]: 721 adds amen in the margin. — [1] flokk ‘poem’: Flokkr is a longer poem without a refrain (stef).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- 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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