Anon Pl 12VII
Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 12’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 189-90.
Brátt kom fram, þats flýti
friðbragða goð sagði;
næst varð meiðr í mestri
mannraun drasils hranna.
Hjǫrð tók hodda skerðis
hyggjusnjalls at falla
— fúrlestir stóðsk freistni
fleygarðs — en hjú deyja.
Kom brátt fram, þats goð sagði {flýti friðbragða}; {meiðr {drasils hranna}} varð næst í mestri mannraun. Hjǫrð {hyggjusnjalls skerðis hodda} tók at falla, en hjú deyja; {{{fleygarðs} fúr}lestir} stóðsk freistni.
What God had told {the advancer of acts of kindness} [HOLY MAN] soon came to pass; {the tree {of the steed of the waves}} [SHIP > SEAFARER] came immediately into the greatest ordeal. The herd {of the brave-souled diminisher of hoards} [GENEROUS MAN] began to perish and [his] household to die; {the wrecker {of the fire {of the ship-fence}}} [(lit. ‘fire-wrecker of the ship-fence’) SHIELD > SWORD > WARRIOR] endured the trial.
Mss: 673b(2r)
Readings: [4] drasils: ‘dra[...]els’ 673b, ‘[...]els’ 673bÞH, ‘dr(as)els’(?) 673bKG, ‘drasels’ 673bFJ
Editions: Skj AI, 609-10, Skj BI, 609-10, Skald I, 297; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 15-16, 44, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 232, Louis-Jensen 1998, 99.
Notes: [4] drasils ‘of the steed’: Reading first proposed in Nj 1875-8, II, 300-1.
References
- Bibliography
- Nj 1875-89 = Konráð Gíslason and Eiríkur Jónsson. 1875-89. Njála: Udgivet efter gamle håndskrifter. Íslendingasögur udgivne efter gamle haandskrifter af Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift-selskab 4. Copenhagen: Thiele.
- Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1833. Brot af Placidus-drápu. Bessastaðir: Helgi Helgason.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1887. ‘Plácítúsdrápa’. In Opuscula Philologica: Mindre Afhandlinger, 210-64.
- Louis-Jensen, Jonna, ed. 1998. ‘Plácitus drápa’. In Tucker 1998, 89-130.
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