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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Anon Lil 91VII/4 — fari ‘behaviour’

Máría, ert þú móðir dýrust;
Máría, lifir þú sæmd í hári;
Máría, ert þú af miskunn kærust;
Máría, liet þú syndafari.
Máría, lít þú mein, þau er vóru,
Máría, lít þú klökk á tárin;
Máría, græð þú mein hin stóru;
Máría, ber þú smyrsl í sárin.

Máría, þú ert dýrust móðir; Máría, þú lifir í hári sæmd; Máría, þú ert kærust af miskunn; Máría, liet þú syndafari. Máría, lít þú mein, þau er vóru; Máría, lít þú klökk á tárin; Máría, græð þú mein hin stóru; Máría, ber þú smyrsl í sárin.

Mary, you are the dearest mother; Mary, you live in high honour; Mary, you are most beloved for your mercy; Mary, halt sinful behaviour. Mary, look at those sins that were; Mary, look tenderly on our tears; Mary, heal the great injuries; Mary, bring balm to our wounds.

readings

[4] syndafari: syndafara 622, syndafarið 4892

notes

[4] syndafari ‘sinful behaviour’: The word also occurs in Stjórn’s account of Sodom and Gomorrah: ok fyrir þi dreckti gud ok saukkti þeim aullum eigi sidr ungum bo᷎rnum ok smápilltum fyrir syndafars sakir sinna feðginna ‘and because of this, God drowned and submerged them all, even young children and small boys, because of the sinful behaviour of their parents’ (Unger 1862, 123).

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