Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur III 2’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 719-20.
Heyrðu, svá að hrein orð
hitti eg og gleði mitt,
æstr, fyrir unað best,
Andréas, hugarland.
Minnumz eg, að mey sönn,
Máría — sú er líkn vár
í hreinum vís vón
verkum — leysti einn klerk.
Heyrðu, æstr Andréas, svá að eg hitti hrein orð og gleði {hugarland mitt} fyrir best unað. Eg minnumz, að sönn mey, Máría, leysti einn klerk; sú er líkn vár, vís vón í hreinum verkum.
‘Hear, most worthy Andrew, so that I may find pure words and may please my mind-land [BREAST] by the best bliss. I remember that the true Virgin, Mary, redeemed a cleric; she is our mercy, trusty hope in pure deeds.’
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Heyrdv svo at hrein ord híttí ek ok gle | dí mítt æztur fyrir vnad beztt · andreas hugar land mínn | vnzt eg at mey saunn maría sv er likn vor i hreínvm | vís vȯn verkum leysti eínn klerk ·
(TW)
Heyrdv svo at hrein ord | híttí ek ok gledí mítt | æztur fyrir vnad bezzt | andreas hvgarland | mínnvnzt eg at mey savnn | maría sv er likn vor | i hreínvm vís van | verkvm leysti eínn klerk. |
(EB)
Skj: [Anonyme digte og vers XIV], [B. 6]. Et digt om et tredje Maria-jærtegn 2: AII, 496, BII, 538, Skald II, 295, NN §2871, Metr. §21; Kahle 1898, 43, 100, Sperber 1911, 15, 64, Wrightson 2001, 67.
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