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[4] vandað sæti heilags anda ‘the adorned seat of the Holy Spirit’: The Virgin Mary. For ‘seat’ or ‘throne’ as a base-word in circumlocutions for Mary, see Schottmann 1973, 55-7 and Salzer 1886-93, 38-9.