Note to GunnLeif Merl I 99^VIII

[All]: Cf. Ps. XCVII.8: Flumina plaudent manu simul montes laudabunt ‘The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice together’. The mentions of the ‘forest’ and the ‘valleys’ seem to represent free variation; for the concept of forest as speaker, cf. II 15/5‑8. The psalms of David were regarded as prophesying the coming of the Messiah, but this would not have been the totality of their perceived relevance to an Icelandic audience; Sv (ÍF 30, 152) represents King Sverrir himself as claiming that the prophecies of the psálmaskáldit ‘the poet of the psalms’, i.e. King David, have come true in Sverrir’s own days.

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