Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 2’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 480.
Sendi son frá böndum
sinn með lausn að vinna
dauðans þeingill þjóðir,
þeyranns í kvið meyjar.
Þeim bjó sú við sóma
snotr mær friðar stæri
víst heimili og hæstum
höfuðstað frömum jöfri.
{Þeingill {þeyranns}} sendi son sinn í kvið meyjar að vinna þjóðir með lausn frá böndum dauðans. Sú snotr mær bjó við sóma {þeim stæri friðar} víst heimili og hæstum frömum jöfri höfuðstað.
{The king {of the thawing wind-house}} [SKY/HEAVEN > = God] sent his son into the womb of a maiden to win people by means of redemption from the bonds of death. That wise maiden honourably provided {the augmenter of peace} [= God (= Christ)] with a sure home and the highest, foremost prince with a chief place.
Mss: B(13v), 399a-bˣ
Readings: [1] böndum: so 399a‑bˣ, BRydberg, BFJ, ‘bo᷎nnd[...]’ B [7] víst: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘vi[...]’ B
Editions: Skj AII, 464, Skj BII, 497, Skald II, 271; Konráð Gíslason 1860, 555, Rydberg 1907, 32, 53, Attwood 1996a, 102, 303.
Notes: [All]: Having begun by establishing the Virgin Mary as the high-seat of the Trinity (1/2-4), the poet now turns to celebrate the Incarnation of Christ. — [3-4] þeingill þeyranns ‘king of the thawing wind-house [SKY/HEAVEN > = God]’: Although þeyrann is hap. leg. (LP: þeyrann), þeyr is attested in the sense ‘thawing wind, warm wind’, while rann ‘house’ is a common element in heaven- and God-kennings in the earlier Christian drápur (LP: rann). On þeyrann, cf. Anon Mgr 44/6, where heaven is referred to as þeyja borg ‘warm winds’ stronghold’.
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