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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Lil 31VII

[6] blóði Máríu ‘in the blood of Mary’: A metonymy for her human body. Cf. the same image in 67/8 and 83/6. The Oratio ad Deum Filium ‘Prayer to God the Son’ of Peter Damian (Petrus Damianus, col. 921) expresses the theological idea behind this: Te materiam Sapientia coelestis habuit, unde templum sui corporis fabricavit ‘Wisdom from on high took you [Mary] as the matter from which he made the temple of his body’.

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