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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Sigv ErfÓl 22I

[5-6] á hœgri hǫnd ‘at [his] right hand’: Óláfr clearly favours ‘the Christian troop’, i.e. those who ‘believed in God’ (as in l. 1). Finnur Jónsson (Hkr 1893-1901, IV) suggests this is an allusion to the parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew XXV.31-46.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Hkr 1893-1901 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1893-1901. Heimskringla: Nóregs konunga sǫgur af Snorri Sturluson. 4 vols. SUGNL 23. Copenhagen: Møller.

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