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[2] lækning sótta ‘healing of sorrows’: See Note to 40/5. Lækningsótta echoes the popular Lat. epithet for Mary medicina dolorum (cf. AH 15, 129; 31, 145; 32, 87, 141; 46, 164, 183, 197, 251).