Anon Mv III 18VII
Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur III 18’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 729.
Kippa þeir um klerk upp
kyndugir höfuðsynd:
‘Siða drýgði sviftuðr
sómalausan hórdóm.
Síðast, áðr líf* leið,
líkti hann að gjöra slíkt;
fyrir þetta sakasár
sálin verðr að hafa bál.’
Kyndugir kippa þeir upp höfuðsynd um klerk: ‘{Sviftuðr siða} drýgði sómalausan hórdóm. Síðast, áðr líf* leið, líkti hann að gjöra slíkt; fyrir þetta sakasár verðr sálin að hafa bál.’
Crafty, they pull up a cardinal sin of the cleric: ‘{The remover of morals} [NEGLIGENT PRIEST] engaged in honourless whoredom. At the very last, before life ended, it pleased him to do such a thing; because of this guilt-wound the soul must suffer the fire.’
Mss: 721(16r)
Readings: [5] líf*: lífið 721
Editions: Skj AII, 498, Skj BII, 542, Skald II, 297, Metr. §§12B, 14C; Kahle 1898, 46, 101, Sperber 1911, 19, 66-7, Wrightson 2001, 75.
Notes: [5] líf* ‘life’: So Skald. The enclitic def. art. -ið (lífið ‘the life’; so 721), makes the l. unmetrical (the penultimate word must be monosyllabic or consist of two short syllables). — [7] sakasár ‘guilt-wound’: This is a hap. leg. (see LP: sakasár).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- 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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