Andi Guðs sveif áður fyrr

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• Blomstre Som En Rosengård, by Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805–1900), 1861
  • Copyright: Public Domain
• Nýja skrúðið nýfærð í

Lyrics

• Poet: Valdimar Briem (1848–1930), 1886
• Poetic Meter: 7 6 7 6 7 7 6
• Copyright: Public Domain

Lyrics from Sálmabók til kirkju—og heima-söngs, 1886, no 411, pages 451–452

• Source on Google Books

e. Skírnin.
411.
Lag: Nýja skrúðið nýfærð í.

1. Andi guðs sveif áður fyr
yfir vatna djúpi.
Upp þá lukust ljóssins dyr,
ljetti’ af myrkra hjúpi.
Upp reis jörðin ung og ný,
árdags geislum böðuð í,
þá úr dimmu djúpi.

2. Andi guðs sveif annað sinn
yfir vatni köldu,
Þegar ljet sig lausnarinn
lauga’ í Jórdans öldu.
Opnast himin, eins og nýtt
upp rann ráðar ljósið blítt
dauða’ úr djúpi köldu.

3. Andinn svífur enn sem fyr
yfir vatni tæru;
opnast himins dýrðardyr
drottins börnum kæru.
Eptir skírnar blessað bað
blómið upp vex nýdöggvað
lífs í ljósi skæru.

ChatGPT literal English translation

• ChatGPT version: GPT-4-turbo (as used on chatgpt.com)
• Date translated: 7 May 2025

1. The Spirit of God once hovered over the deep of the waters.
Then the doors of light were opened, and the covering of darkness was lifted.
The earth rose up, young and new, bathed in the rays of dawn, then from the dark deep.

2. The Spirit of God hovered a second time over the cold water,
When the Redeemer let himself be washed in the wave of the Jordan.
Heaven opened, as if anew, the gentle light rose forth from the cold deep of death.

3. The Spirit still hovers as before over clear water;
The doors of heaven’s glory open to the dear children of the Lord.
After the blessed bath of baptism, the flower grows up, newly dewed, with the life in bright light.

External Lyrics

Lyrics from Sálmabók Íslensku Þjóðkirkjunnar

• Lyrics from kirkjan.is

Publications

• no. 107 in Sálmar, 1993
• no. 251 in Sálmabók Íslensku Þjóðkirkjunnar