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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Heil 13VII

[2-4] lofaður Díónísíus tók að rísa upp og hielt á höfði rennandi hratt tvennar mílur ‘the praised Dionysius began to rise up and held his head running fast two miles’: This bizarre detail (cf. Unger 1877, I, 319-20) places Dionysius among a group of martyrs who were supposed to have carried their severed heads to their places of burial, in this case the site of the abbey church of S. Denis in Paris.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Unger, C. R., ed. 1877. Heilagra manna søgur. Fortællinger og legender om hellige mænd og kvinder. 2 vols. Christiania (Oslo): Bentzen.

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