Anon Pét 54VII
David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 54’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 844.
Énéas lofi launar
lasta brjót á móti
reistr af kör og Kristum
kátr trúliga játar.
Gladdiz lýðr í Lidda
leystr af villu geystri;
Pétro virðing veitir
víð borg þessi síðan.
Énéas, reistr af kör, launar {brjót lasta} lofi á móti og játar kátr trúliga Kristum. Lýðr í Lidda, leystr af geystri villu, gladdiz; víð borg þessi veitir virðing Pétro síðan.
Eneas, raised from his sickbed, pays {the breaker of sins} [APOSTLE] with praise in return, and, joyful, faithfully acknowledges Christ. The people in Lydda, freed from headlong error, rejoiced; this spacious city pays honour to Peter thereafter.
Mss: 621(59v)
Editions: Skj AII, 508, Skj BII, 557-8, Skald II, 305; Kahle 1898, 90; Konráð Gíslason 1860, 557.
Notes: [All]: Cf. Acts IX.32-5; Pétr 40/2-9; [Pseudo-] Peter Comestor, Historia actuum apostolorum, ch. 45, col. 1674A-D. — [2] brjót lasta ‘the breaker of sins’: Cf. Arngr Gd 16/4IV meinabrjótr ‘the breaker of harms’; Lil 47/8 synda brjót ‘the breaker of sins [= God (= Christ)]’.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Kahle, Bernhard, ed. 1898. Isländische geistliche Dichtungen des ausgehenden Mittelalters. Heidelberg: Winter.
- Internal references
- Not published: do not cite (Arngr Gd 16IV)
- Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Lilja 47’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 617-18.
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