Anon Pl 32^VII

Lýtr engla lið ítrum
angrhrjóðanda ok þjóðir;
einn es ǫllu hreinni,
allt gótt sás skóp, dróttinn.

Lið engla ok þjóðir lýtr {ítrum angrhrjóðanda}; einn dróttinn, sás skóp allt gótt, es ǫllu hreinni.

The band of angels and humankind bows {to the glorious sin-destroyer} [= God]; the one Lord, who created everything good, is purer than all.

Mss: 673b(3v)

Readings: [2] þjóðir: ‘þio[...]’ 673b, ‘þiodar’ 673bÞH, ‘þioþer’ 673bFJ    [4] dróttinn: ‘[...]en’ 673b, ‘drotteɴ h. s. e.’ 673bÞH, ‘droteɴ’ 673bFJ

Editions: Skj AI, 613, Skj BI, 615, Skald I, 299, NN §§3134, 3143A; Sveinbjörn Egilsson 1833, 24, 52, Finnur Jónsson 1887, 237, Louis-Jensen 1998, 108.

Notes: [All]: Stef 2. A cross in the margin on the previous l. marks the new stef. There is a gap in the ms. of about half a l. at the end of the helmingr and Þorsteinn Helgason claimed to read an abbreviation of the first stef in this space. Sveinbjörn Egilsson includes the first stef directly after the new stef (following 673bÞH), which would be consistent with the first stef occurring every 7 sts (previously in sts 11, 18, 25). However, there are no remaining traces of the abbreviation in the ms. and the repetition of the first stef directly after the second would be very unusual. — [3, 4] einn dróttinn ... es ǫllu hreinni ‘the one Lord is purer than all’: Kock (NN §3143A) takes this as equivalent to the idiomatic einn + sup., in which case it would be translated ‘the Lord is the purest of all’. Cf. GunnLeif Merl I 56/1^VIII.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Sveinbjörn Egilsson, ed. 1833. Brot af Placidus-drápu. Bessastaðir: Helgi Helgason.
3. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
5. Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1887. ‘Plácítúsdrápa’. In Opuscula Philologica: Mindre Afhandlinger, 210-64.
6. Louis-Jensen, Jonna, ed. 1998. ‘Plácitus drápa’. In Tucker 1998, 89-130.
7. Internal references
8. (forthcoming), ‘ Anonymous, Þorgils saga ok Hafliða’ in Guðrún Nordal (ed.), Poetry on Icelandic History. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 4. Turnhout: Brepols, p. . <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=103> (accessed 19 April 2024)
9. Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 124 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 56)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 93.