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[8] ván mín ‘my hope’:
A popular epithet
for Mary, familiar from the antiphon Salve Regina misericordiae. Vite
dulcedo et spes nostra salue ‘Hail, Queen of Mercy, hail,
our life, our sweetness, and our hope’ (Brev. Nidr. h.iiiir).