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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Pét 23VII/7 — sonr ‘son’

Svaraði Símón dýrum
sólranns kóngi þannveg
einarðar- fystr -orði
— orð það er þarfligast vorðið —
‘Þú ert Kristr inn kæsti
kunnr af hjálpar brunni
lifandi sonr guðs sendur
sannr og eins nie annars’.

Fystr svaraði Símón dýrum kóngi sólranns einarðarorði þannveg — það orð er vorðið þarfligast — : ‘Þú ert inn kæsti Kristr, kunnr af brunni hjálpar, sendur sannr sonr lifandi og eins guðs nie annars’.

Simon first answered the precious king of the sun-hall [SKY/HEAVEN > = God (= Christ)] with a statement of sincerity thus — that remark has become most salutary — : ‘You are the most beloved Christ, known for the spring of salvation, sent [as] the true son of the living and one God and of no other’.

notes

[7] sonr lifandi guðs ‘son of the living God’: Kock (NN §1724) objects to this interpretation (adopted here from Skj B), and insists that either the translation or the form of lifandi must be changed. He takes lifandi as nom. sg. with sonr: ‘the living son of God’. Lines 5-7, however, clearly follow the texts of Matt. XVI.16 and Pétr 5/33-6/1 closely (see Note to [All] above), and lifandi is more likely the late gen. sg. form of the pres. part. with guðs.

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