Anon Sól 10VII
Carolyne Larrington and Peter Robinson (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Sólarljóð 10’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 302.
Munaðar ríki hefr margan tregat;
opt verðr kvalræði af konum;
meingar þær urðu, þótt inn mátki guð
skapaði skírliga.
Ríki munaðar hefr margan tregat; kvalræði verðr opt af konum; þær urðu meingar, þótt inn mátki guð skapaði skírliga.
The power of desire has brought many a man to grief; torment often stems from women; they become harmful, though the mighty God created them purely.
Mss: 166bˣ(45v), papp15ˣ(1v-2r), 738ˣ(80v), 167b 6ˣ(1v), 214ˣ(149v), 1441ˣ(581), 10575ˣ(2v), 2797ˣ(231)
Readings: [1] Munaðar: Mundar 738ˣ, 167b 6ˣ [2] tregat: tregat corrected from ‘svikit’ 1441ˣ [3] verðr: verða 10575ˣ [5] inn: honum 214ˣ [6] skapaði: ‘sk padi’ 167b 6ˣ, skapti 214ˣ, 10575ˣ, 2797ˣ; skírliga: ‘[...]’ 167b 6ˣ
Editions: Skj AI, 629, Skj BI, 637, Skald I, 309; Bugge 1867, 358, Falk 1914, 5, Björn M. Ólsen 1915, 8, Fidjestøl 1979, 61, Njörður Njarðvík 1991, 50, Njörður Njarðvík 1993, 16, 96.
Notes: [All]: The unreliability and harmfulness of women is a staple of gnomic poetry; cf. Hávm 84, Hsv 12, 105. — [2] tregat ‘brought to grief’: This is the reading of 60 mss. 166bˣ reads ‘togd’ here; probably superscript <r> has been accidentally omitted. — [6]: 167bˣ has a damaged leaf; ‘sk padi’ is supplied from the catchword of the preceding page.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Fidjestøl, Bjarne, ed. 1979a. Sólarljóð: Tydning og Tolkningsgrunnlag. Nordisk Instituts skrifteserie 4. Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø: Universitetsforlaget.
- Björn Magnússon Ólsen, ed. 1915a. Sólarljóð: gefin út með skíringum og athugasemdum. Safn til sögu Íslands og íslenzkra bókmenta 5.1. Reykjavík: Prentsmiðja Gutenberg.
- Bugge, Sophus, ed. 1867. Norrœn fornkvæði. Islandsk samling af folkelige oldtidsdigte om nordens guder og heroer. Almindelig kaldet Sæmundar Edda hins frøda. Christiania (Oslo): Malling. Rpt. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 1965.
- Falk, Hjalmar, ed. 1914a. Sólarljóð. Videnskapsselskapets skrifter II. Hist.-filos. kl. 7. 2 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Dybwad.
- Njörður P. Njarðvik, ed. 1991. Sólarljóð. Útgáfa og umfjöllun. Íslensk Rit 10. Reykjavík: Bókmenntafræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands og Menningarsjóður.
- Njörður P. Njarðvik. 1993. Solsången. Akademisk avhandling för filosofiedoktorsexamen i nordiska språk. Göteborgs universitet: Institutionen för svensk språket.
- Internal references
- Tarrin Wills and Stefanie Gropper (eds) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Hugsvinnsmál 12’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 367-8.
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