Anon Pl 2VII
Jonna Louis-Jensen and Tarrin Wills (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Plácitusdrápa 2’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 183.
Lundr reis gjalfrs frá grundu
goðs orðum … skorðaðr
elds; vas áðr til foldar
ormstalls boði fallinn.
Logstýfir bað leyfa
ljóss engla sér þengil
Vánar vífi sínu
vegs þessi rǫk segja.
{Lundr {elds gjalfrs}} reis frá grundu … skorðaðr orðum goðs; {boði {ormstalls}} vas áðr fallinn til foldar. {{Vánar log}stýfir} bað {þengil {ljóss vegs engla}} leyfa sér segja vífi sínu þessi rǫk.
{The tree {of the fire of the sea}} [GOLD > MAN] rose from the ground … supported by the words of God; {the messenger {of the serpent-lair}} [GOLD > MAN] had previously fallen to earth. {The snipper {of the fire of Vôn <river>}} [(lit. ‘the fire-snipper of Vôn’) GOLD > GENEROUS MAN] asked {the ruler {of the bright path of angels}} [HEAVEN > = God] to permit him to tell his wife about these omens.
Mss: 673b(1r)
Readings: [2] …: om. 673b [5] bað: ‘bęþ’ 673b [6] ljóss: ljós 673b [8] vegs: ‘[...]egs’ 673b, ‘uegs’ 673bÞH, 673bFJ
Editions: Skj AI, 607-8, Skj BI, 607, Skald I, 295; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 11-12, 39, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 230, Louis-Jensen 1998, 93-4.
Notes: [2] …: Konráð Gíslason proposed adding vel ‘well’ to fill the metrical lacuna here (Nj 1875-8, II, 252). — [6] ljóss ‘bright’: Emendation proposed in Skj B. — [8] vegs ‘of the path’: Both Þorsteinn Helgason and Finnur Jónsson thought they could read the <v> or <u> in the ms. While the letter is no longer visible, it is determined by the alliteration.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- 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.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Louis-Jensen, Jonna, ed. 1998. ‘Plácitus drápa’. In Tucker 1998, 89-130.
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