Gamlkan Has 53VII/2 — … ‘…’
Slík styrkja mik merki,
minn guð, … þinna,
þótt atferðin yrði
ór herfilig stórum,
leiptra hróts at láta
láðvaldr muni aldri
glaðr, ef glœpa iðrumk,
glóða mik fyr róða.
Slík merki þinna … styrkja mik, minn guð, þótt ór atferðin yrði stórum herfilig, at glaðr láðvaldr glóða hróts leiptra muni aldri láta mik fyr róða, ef iðrumk glœpa.
Such tokens of your … strengthen me, my God, even though our [my] behaviour were to become very shameful, that the glad ruler of the land of the fires of the roof of lightnings [(lit. ‘land-ruler of the fires of the roof of lightnings’) SKY/HEAVEN > HEAVENLY BODIES > SKY/HEAVEN > = God] will never cast me to the winds, if I repent of my sins.
readings
[2] … þinna: ‘[...]nna’ B, ‘un[...](þi)nna’(?) 399a‑bˣ, ‘v(n)[...]inna’(?) BRydberg, ‘vn[...](þi)nna’(?) BFJ
notes
[2] …: B is very badly worn here. The end of the word is completely obliterated by a hole, and only the vaguest traces remain of two (?) initial letters. Of these, only the very first downstroke is at all certain, and this might just as well represent the vestige of an <n> as a <u>. Sveinbjörn Egilsson adopts the suggestion made in a marginal note by the 399a-bˣ copyist (mediated to Sveinbjörn via Jón Sigurðsson’s 444ˣ transcript of 399a-bˣ) that the ms. reading should be undra, gen. pl. of undr ‘wonder, miracle’. In this, he is followed by Kempff and Finnur Jónsson (Skj B). Jón Helgason (1935-6, 260) comments that ‘the word undr fits very badly here, where the discussion does not concern God’s miracles but his mercy’. Jón reconstructs náða ‘mercies’, and is followed by Kock (NN §2926) and Black.