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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Mdr 19VII

[3-4] rjóð rósa* ‘red rose’: On the general use of rose imagery in Mariolatry, see Warner 2000, 306-8 and passim. On Mary as a flower, and specifically a rose (symbolising love), see Schottmann 1973, 22-32 and especially 26, where kennings for the Virgin employing a flower word as base and an abstract noun as determinant, as in fagrt blóm fullrar tignar ‘beautiful flower of complete honour’ (ll. 1-2), are analysed.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Schottmann, Hans. 1973. Die isländische Mariendichtung. Untersuchungen zur volkssprachigen Mariendichtung des Mittelalters. Münchner germanistische Beiträge 9. Munich: Fink.
  3. Warner, Marina. 2000. Alone of all her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary. London: Vintage.

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