Note to Anon Lil 40^VII

[2] þriðja himni ‘from the third heaven’: So Bb, but other mss have heimi þriðja ‘from the third world’, a reading adopted by Skj B and Skald. Perhaps an allusion to 2 Cor. XII.2, where S. Paul tells that he was taken up into the third heaven. See Note on 11/3 and cf. 27/4. The poet envisions a three-tiered cosmology: the sphere of air and nature surrounding the earth, the sphere of ether, the realm of angels, beyond it, and the third sphere, the abode of God.

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