Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Poems, Nikulásdrápa 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 568.
Jón laut í höll hreinum
hjarta sals hins bjarta
meyjar mannvitsfrægrar
mildingi bragninga.
Jón laut {hreinum mildingi bragninga} í {höll {hins bjarta sals hjarta}} mannvitsfrægrar meyjar.
‘John bowed to the pure ruler of princes [= God (= Christ)] in the hall of the bright chamber of the heart [BREAST > WOMB] of the maiden famous of understanding.’
This helmingr provides the author of FoGT with another example of ekbasis or digression. He explains: Stundvm verðr ebasis af þí at skalldit tekr dæmi þeim lutum, sem hann vill frægja eðr vfrægja, af ǫðrum frásǫgnvm, svá er ok í sama kvæði nicholao dæmi tekin af hinum sæla iohanne baptista at auka hans virðing, sem í þessi visv ‘Sometimes e(k)basis occurs because the poet takes incidents from other narratives to compare to the things he wants to praise or blame. Thus it also happens in the same poem to Nicholas that examples are taken from [the life of] the blessed John the Baptist, in order to increase the former’s reputation, as in this stanza’. Stanza 3 then follows.
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Jon lavt i hǫll hreinvm hiarta| sals hins biarta meyiar manviz frægrar milldingi bragninga.
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