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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Mhkv 12III

[3] sár tanna ‘the aching tooth’: Lit. ‘pain of the teeth’. An international proverb (semper cum dente remanebit lingua dolente ‘the tongue always remains with the aching tooth’), deployed in courtly-love contexts by at least five early troubadours; cf. Bishop Folc of Marseille (Schulmann 2001, 186-7): ‘I know, as “Toward the toothache turns the tongue,” I turn to the lady who snarls at me’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Schulmann, Nicole M. 2001. Where Troubadours Were Bishops: The Occitania of Folc of Marseille (1150-1231). New York and London: Routledge.

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