[5] yfirpostula ‘chief Apostle’: A reference to Peter’s traditional title princeps apostolorum; cf. Anon Pét 27/1-2: princeps ... postulanna and the antiphon: Tu es pastor ovium, princeps apostolorum ‘You are the shepherd of the sheep, chief of the Apostles’ sung at the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul (29 June; CAO III, 513 no. 5207; cf. Ordo Nidr. 319, 358, 360, 374; Gjerløw 1961, 137; Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: princeps III.A.2.c [1287/75-88/1] apostolorum ... [de Petro]).
References
- Bibliography
- CAO = Hesbert, Renato-Joanne, ed. 1963-79. Corpus antiphonalium officii. 6 vols. Rerum ecclesiasticarum documenta, series maior, Fontes 7-12. Rome: Casa Editrice Herder.
- Gjerløw, Lilli. 1961. Adoratio Crucis: The Regularis concordia and The Decreta Lanfranci: Manuscript studies in the early medieval church of Norway. Oslo and Boston: Norwegian Universities Press.
- Internal references
- David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 27’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 819-20.