Anon Mdr 21^VII

Heitur glyggranns gætir
góðr vegligri móður
sinni sier að unna;
satt mál er það sálum.
Lofar þá er öllum er efri
ein riett í veg hreinum,
— Kristr skipar hjá sier hæsta
heims drottning — lið* beima.

{Góðr gætir {glyggranns}} heitur vegligri móður sinni að unna sier; það er satt mál sálum. Lið* beima lofar, þá er ein er riett efri öllum í hreinum veg; Kristr skipar {hæsta drottning heims} hjá sier.

{The good guardian {of the storm-house}} [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)] promises his glorious mother to love her; that is a true agreement for souls. The company of men praises the one who alone, rightly is higher than all in pure honour; Christ establishes {the highest queen of the world} [= Mary] beside himself.

Mss: B(14r), 399a-bˣ

Readings: [1] glyggranns: so 399a‑bˣ, ‘gl[...]grannz’ B    [5-8] abbrev. as ‘Lofar þa er o᷎llum er efri.’ B

Editions: Skj AII, 468, Skj BII, 501, Skald II, 274, NN §1648; Rydberg 1907, 36, 55, Attwood 1996a, 107, 308.

Notes: [1] gætir glyggranns ‘guardian of the storm-house [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)]’: Cf. the similar kenning gramr glyggranns ‘prince of the storm-house’ in Mark Frag 1^III. See also Líkn 28/3-4 and Pét 46/6. — [4] sálum ‘for souls’: Kock (NN §1648) objects that this makes for excessive s-alliteration and emends to hála ‘highly, ardently’ (?). — [5-8]: Repetition of the first stef, previously given in sts 3 and 12, is indicated by an obelos in the right margin of 14r/7.

References

1. Bibliography
2. Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
3. NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
4. Attwood, Katrina. 1996a. ‘The Poems of MS AM 757a 4to: An Edition and Contextual Study’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Leeds.
5. Rydberg, Hugo, ed. 1907. ‘Die geistlichen Drápur und Dróttkvættfragmente des Cod. AM 757 4to.’. Ph.D. thesis. University of Lund. Copenhagen: Møller.
6. Internal references
7. George S. Tate (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Líknarbraut 28’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 258-9.
8. David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 46’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 837-8.
9. Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2017, ‘Markús Skeggjason, Fragments 1’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 293.