[7] leysti oss öll ór banni ‘loosed us all from the ban’: The word bann has juridical connotations and refers to a ban of excommunication imposed by ecclesiastical authority. The idiom leysa ór banni ‘to release from interdict or excommunication’ occurs in legal and theological texts (see ONP: bann 2). Here damnation through Adam and redemption through Christ are metaphorically compared with this canonical process. Cf. 15/2, 80/6, and 83/2.