Anon Pét 17^VII

Satt er, að sína rietti
— svá greiniz — guð hreina
hönd og hjálpir sendi
hirðmanni Krists sannar.
Lyftu, og lietu eftir,
listarför með Kristi,
veiðifaung sem váðir
vát segl þar með báti.

Satt er, að guð rietti sína hreina hönd og sendi sannar hjálpir {hirðmanni Krists} — svá greiniz. Lyftu listarför með Kristi, og lietu eftir veiðifaung sem váðir, vát segl þar með báti.

It is true that God extended his pure hand and sent true help {to the retainer of Christ} [APOSTLE = Peter] — so it is told. They began their glorious journey with Christ and left behind their catch as well as their clothes [and] wet sails there with the boat.

Mss: 621(58r)

Editions: Skj AII, 503, Skj BII, 549, Skald II, 301, NN §58B; Kahle 1898, 82.

Notes: [1-4]: Cf. Pétr 5/8-9: Jesus retti þa sina signaðu hond i mot honum ok reisti hann upp ‘Jesus then stretched out his blessed hand towards him and raised him up’; Matt. XIV.31. St. 16/5-8 and st. 17/1-4 may originally have formed one st. (see next Note). — [5-8]: Cf. Pétr 4/4-6: Þeir fyrirletu þegar netin ok batinn fylgiandi honum með o᷎llu þaðan af ‘They immediately abandoned the nets and the boat, following him completely from then onward’; Matt. IV.20: at illi continuo relictis retibus secuti sunt eum ‘and they immediately leaving their nets, followed him’. This helmingr looks as though it should follow st. 15. — [5] lyftu ‘they began’: See LP: lypta 3; NN §58B. — [7] veiðifaung ‘catch’: The word is glossed in LP (as here) fangst (ved fiskeri) (cf. Fritzner: veiðifang), but is rendered deres fangstredskaber ‘their fishing-gear’ at Skj BII, 549 (as if veiðigǫgn?; see Fritzner: veiðigagn; cf. Matt. IV.20: retibus ‘nets’; Pétr 4/5: netin ok batinn ‘the nets and the boat’; Pétr 19/21: at fiskia menn með Kristz veiðigǫgnum til rettrar truar ‘to fish men with the fishing-gear of Christ to the true faith’).

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