Abstract
Understanding N 603 from Bryggen in Bergen in the Light of Carmina Burana Poems 88 and 71
Highlights
Among the runic texts in Latin from Bryggen in Bergen, N 603 has many attractive qualities: the runic stick is inscribed on three sides (a, b and c), with each text of approximately equal length and syntactically and logically complete
Whatever the others may carry out, my virgin, let us act in such a way,/ that we will do playing that is carried out decently:/ we are both tender; let us play tenderly
Whatever the others may carry out, my virgin, let us act in such a way, that we will do playing that is carried out decently; we are both tender; let us play tenderly!
Summary
Among the runic texts in Latin from Bryggen in Bergen, N 603 has many attractive qualities: the runic stick is inscribed on three sides (a, b and c), with each text of approximately equal length and syntactically and logically complete ( with minor lacunae at both ends). For the text of stanza 9, I have followed Schumann (1941) in reading ceteri ‘the others’ in the first line; ceteri is without doubt the original and “correct” word Liestøl
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