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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Mdr 42VII

[3] rót líknar ‘root of mercy’: Cf. Schottmann 1973, 32-4 for comparable epithets and the Lat. Marian epithet salve radix, most familiar from the hymn Ave regina cælorum ‘Hail queen of the heavens’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Schottmann, Hans. 1973. Die isländische Mariendichtung. Untersuchungen zur volkssprachigen Mariendichtung des Mittelalters. Münchner germanistische Beiträge 9. Munich: Fink.

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