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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Skapti Frag 1III/1 — dróttins ‘of the lord’

Máttr es munka dróttins
mestr; aflar goð flestu;
Kristr skóp ríkr ok reisti
Róms hǫll verǫld alla.

Máttr dróttins munka es mestr; goð aflar flestu; ríkr Kristr skóp alla verǫld ok reisti hǫll Róms.

The power of the lord of monks [= God] is greatest; God brings everything about; the mighty Christ created the whole world and raised up the hall of Rome.

notes

[1] dróttins munka ‘of the lord of monks [= God]’: Meissner (Meissner 369) comments that early kennings for God or Christ such as this, konungr Róms ‘king of Rome’ (Eil Frag 1/3, 4) and gramr Jórðánar ‘prince of the Jordan’ (Sigv ErfÓl 28/2I) register a sense of the strangeness (das fremdartige) of the idea of the Christian god, which however soon phases out.

kennings

grammar

case: gen.

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