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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to GunnLeif Merl I 59VIII

[All]: Cf. DGB 114 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 149.102-4; cf. Wright 1988, 105, prophecy 17): Renouabit namque beatorum sedes per patrias et pastores in congruis locis locabit. Duas urbes duobus palliis induet et uirginea munera uirginibus donabit ‘For he shall rebuild the homes of the saints throughout his lands and place shepherds in appropriate places. He will dress two cities in two pallia and give virginal gifts to virgins’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 148). ‘Shepherds’ here equates to bishops (cf. Note to II 16/5). Whether Geoffrey means a renewal of the pallia held by York and Canterbury or the bestowal of pallia on two new sees is unclear.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Reeve, Michael D., and Neil Wright. 2007. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum [Historia regum Britanniae]. Woodbridge: Boydell.
  3. Wright, Neil, ed. 1988. The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. II. The First Variant Version: A Critical Edition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.

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