Gripla - 20.12.2010, Side 39

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English translation:
Bishop Þorlákr, you who rejoice in perpetual peace,
fortunate, perfect, venerable, famous, righteous,
mild, pacifying, gentle, blessed, chaste,
great, unworried, most vigorous, strenuous, pure,
good looking, beautiful, patient, good, religious,
truthful, entertaining, most chaste, sober, clean,
sweet, discreet, tranquil, decorous, quiet,
splendid, sincere, clement, robust, severe,
equitable, decent, placid, steadfast, most firm, faithful,
magnificent, modest, grave, remarkable, honest, suave,
exalted, humble, dignified, sublime, towering, benign,
useful, gracious, sacred, most celebrated, noble, sharp,
illustrious, renowned, prudent, pious, provident, knowing,
holy, powerful, just, wise, upright, generous, graceful.
Pastor, you who deserve praise by all and veneration,
I ask you, Þorlákr, cut with the scythe of your workings
the thorns casting shadows in my unclear mind,
that with a pure mind I may applaud your deeds at once,
which praise of you with the faculty of the mouth will be
worthy of being written
by me, so limited, faulty and very weak,
(although) an utterly speechless praise and not enriched
by any learning,
which falters in deformed and rude words,
(it has) all the miracles of your prodigious deeds,
to whose numbers (the grains of) entire sands are barely equal.
THE FORGOTTEN POEM
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