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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Lil 11VII

[6] sú er skiljandi drottins vilja ‘it [lit. she, the soul] is discerning the Lord’s will’: The verb skilja is used in theological literature to denote the ability of the soul to discern the will of God as well as the capacity to distinguish between good and evil. This power of the soul has already been mentioned above in st. 5. The Lenten homily in HomÍsl has an extensive discussion of the discerning faculties of the soul (hanſ aɴde getr ſkilþan guþs vilia ‘his soul distinguishes the will of God’). See HomÍsl 1993, 50v-54r, esp. 52v.

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