Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríuvísur III 4’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 720-1.
Rítar gjörðiz ranglátr
rennir við yfirmenn;
hjartað varð af sökum sárt;
siðir spillaz þar við.
Kvennaástin kvelr hann
— klerkum er það mein — sterk;
var hann ór viti nær
vífa fyrir gleðilíf.
{Rennir rítar} gjörðiz ranglátr við yfirmenn; hjartað varð sárt af sökum; siðir spillaz þar við. Sterk kvennaástin kvelr hann; það er mein klerkum; hann var nær ór viti fyrir gleðilíf vífa.
{The speeder of the shield} [WARRIOR] became unjust to his superiors; the heart became wounded by sins; morals are destroyed by that. The strong love of women torments him; that is a harm to clerics; he was almost out of his wits because of a life of pleasure with women.
Mss: 721(15v-16r), 1032ˣ(144v)
Readings: [1] Rítar: ‘Rítur’ 721 [3] hjartað (‘hjarṭạð̣’): so 1032ˣ, ‘hjart[...]’ 721 [6] það: so 1032ˣ, þar 721
Editions: Skj AII, 496, Skj BII, 539, Skald II, 295; Kahle 1898, 43, 100, Sperber 1911, 15-16, 64-5, Wrightson 2001, 68.
Notes: [1] rítar (f. gen. sg.) ‘of the shield’: The emendation is necessary to provide a determinant in the kenning for ‘man’ (rítr is nom. or acc. pl.). Wrightson suggests that rítr could be gen. sg. (the noun is a f. consonant stem; see ANG §413), but the gen. sg. ending -ar is ensured elsewhere by the metre (e.g. Mv I 21). — [6] það ‘that’: The 721 reading þar ‘there’ makes no sense in this context. Other eds resolve the abbreviation in 721 as það ‘that’.
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