Note to GunnLeif Merl I 59^VIII

[7] þýjum Krists ‘to the servant-women of Christ’: This phrase probably translates the uirginibus ‘to virgins’ of Geoffrey’s text. The word virgo ‘virgin’ is a common expression for ‘nun’ in the C12th (Freeman 2015, 268). Finnur Jónsson (LP: þý) considered Gunnlaugr may have had female saints in mind, but he could equally have been thinking of nuns.

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LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
Freeman, Elizabeth. 2015. ‘Gilbert of Hoyland’s Sermons for Nuns: A Cistercian Abbot and the cura monialium in Twelfth-Century Lincolnshire’. Cistercian Studies Quarterly 50, 267-91.

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