[2] með elskubandi ‘with the bond of love’: This is taken in a figurative sense (cf. Norw. elskovsbånd ‘ties of love’; see Fritzner: elskuband; Schottmann 1973, 376 and n. 6). Wrightson (2001; 1997c, 124, 133 n. 35) translates it as ‘ring of love’, but the later context shows that he cannot have given her a concrete token of their betrothal at this point.
References
- Bibliography
- Schottmann, Hans. 1973. Die isländische Mariendichtung. Untersuchungen zur volkssprachigen Mariendichtung des Mittelalters. Münchner germanistische Beiträge 9. Munich: Fink.
- Wrightson, Kellinde, ed. 2001. Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Verse on the Virgin Mary: Drápa af Maríugrát, Vitnisvísur af Maríu, Maríuvísur I-III. Viking Society for Northern Research Text Series 14. University College London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.