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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Mey 44VII/3 — meyju ‘maiden’

Júliána fekk hrein og heilög
hatr og mein af greifa einum;
læstu þeir að meyju mæstri
myrkvarann í fjötrum styrkum.
Sendiz þangað hinn svikli fjandi
svíkjandi með eingils líki;
kúgaðr var hann af fljóði fögru
fagnaðarlauss til margra sagna.

Hrein og heilög Júliána fekk hatr og mein af einum greifa; þeir læstu mæstri meyju í styrkum fjötrum að myrkvarann. Hinn svikli fjandi sendiz þangað svíkjandi með líki eingils; fagnaðarlauss var hann kúgaðr af fögru fljóði til margra sagna.

The pure and holy Juliana incurred the hatred and torture of a count; they locked the most precious maiden in strong fetters in a dungeon. The deceitful devil was sent there, deceiving [her] in the shape of an angel; joyless he was forced by the fair woman to tell much [lit. forced to many stories].

notes

[3-4] þeir læstu mæstri meyju í styrkum fjötrum að myrkvarann ‘they locked the most precious maiden in strong fetters in a dungeon’: The construction is læsa e-t at e-m ‘to lock (a building) on somebody, lock somebody in’ (cf. LP: læsa).

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