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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Lil 21VII/2 — megi ‘can’

Heimr er dauðr, en hvað er til ráða?
Hvar gietr þann, er sier megi bjarga?
Hvergi, því að í synda saurgan
sannliga, hverr að þyngir annan.
Eitt er til, það er eg skal vátta,
— á eg grátandi frammi að standa —
attú sjálfr, inn dýri drottinn,
dugir nú ferð, svá lífguð verði.

Heimr er dauðr, en hvað er til ráða? Hvar gietr þann, er megi bjarga sier? Hvergi, því að í saurgan synda sannliga, að hverr þyngir annan. Eitt er til, það er eg skal vátta — á eg að standa frammi grátandi — attú sjálfr, inn dýri drottinn, dugir nú ferð, svá lífguð verði.

The world is dead, and what remedy is there? Where is to be found the one who can save himself? Nowhere, because in the defilement of sins truly [it is] that each weighs down the other. There is one thing to be done, that which I shall attest — I must stand forth weeping —, that you yourself, the dear Lord, will now help mankind, so that it may be revived.

readings

[2] megi: má Vb, 41 8°ˣ

notes

[2]: Cf. Ps. LXXXVIII.49: quis est vir qui vivat et non videat mortem salvans animam suam de manu inferi semper ‘who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?’

grammar

Verbs: Preterite-present verbs

The present tense of these verbs is like the past tense of strong verbs, and their past tense is weak.

eigamegakunnaskulumunumuna
indic.
pres.
sing.


pl.
1st
2nd
3rd
1st
2nd
3rd
á
átt
á
eigum
eiguð
eigu

mátt

megum
meguð
megu
kann
kannt
kann
kunnum
kunnuð
kunnu
skal
skalt
skal
skulum
skuluð
skulu
mun
munt
mun
munum
munuð
munu
man
mant
man
munum
munið
muna
indic. past stem
subj. pres. stem
subj. past stem
átt-
eig-
ætt-
mátt-
meg-
mætt-
kunn-
kunn-
kynn-
skyld-
skyl-
skyld-
mund-
myn-
mynd-
mund-
mun-
mynd-
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