Anon Leið 31VII/3 — sonr ‘the son’
Dag reis sinn með sigri
snjallastr faðir allra
— sonr huggaði seggi
sólar hauðrs — af dauða.
Áðr batt flærðarfróðan
fjanda heilagr andi
fast ok fyrða leysti
fremðarstyrkr ór myrkrum.
Snjallastr faðir allra reis af dauða með sigri dag sinn; sonr hauðrs sólar huggaði seggi. Áðr batt fremðarstyrkr heilagr andi fast flærðarfróðan fjanda ok leysti fyrða ór myrkrum.
The most valiant father of all [= God (= Christ)] rose from death with victory on his day; the son of the land of the sun [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)] comforted men. Previously the honour-strong Holy Spirit bound fast the deceit-learned fiend and released men from darkness.
notes
[3] sonr ‘son’: The Christ-kenning sonr hauðrs sólar ‘son of the land of the sun’, based on a hypothetical kenning-type ‘son of heaven’ is without parallel in the skaldic corpus. Presumably for this reason Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends sonr to sjóli ‘prince’. This destroys the subtle theological structure of the st., however. Christ is referred to successively as all three persons of the Trinity: it is as faðir allra ‘father of all’ that he rises from the dead (l. 2), as sonr hauðrs sólar ‘son of the land of the sun’ that he comforts mankind (ll. 3-4) and as heilagr andi ‘holy spirit’ that he harrows hell (ll. 5-8).
kennings
- sonr hauðrs sólar — the son of the land of the sun [= God (Christ)]
grammar
case: nom.