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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Gamlkan Has 55VII

[6] orð þín, friðar tínir ‘your words, gatherer of peace [= God]’: This l. recalls the account of the Passion of Christ in sts 23 and 24. The God-kenning, tínir friðar ‘gatherer of peace’, may be a deliberate echo of tínir bauga ‘gatherer of rings’, which characterises the penitent thief in 23/6. The diction and content also parallel the description of God’s promises, which offer the thief hope in 24/8 þín heit, veitir friðar ‘your promises, giver of peace’.

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