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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Hsv 17VII/4 — hreinu ‘a pure’

Allra ráða        tel ek þat einna bezt
        at göfga æztan guð;
með hreinu hjarta        skaltu á hann trúa
        ok elska af öllum hug.

Ek tel þat einna bezt allra ráða at göfga æztan guð; skaltu trúa á hann með hreinu hjarta ok elska af öllum hug.

I consider this the best of all advice to worship the highest God; you must believe in him with a pure heart and love him with all your mind.

readings

[4] með hreinu hjarta: þú 624

notes

[4] með hreinu hjarta ‘with a pure heart’: This reading, missing from 624, might have been influenced by Sól 3. Unna af öllum hug (or allz hugar) is found in eddic poetry esp. denoting the love of a woman for a man: cf. Grp 32/7-8; HHund II, 15/1-2, etc.

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