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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Lil 64VII

[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.

References

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  2. ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.

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