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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon Líkn 13VII

[6] krossmark ‘cross-sign’: In Niðrst1 I.8 Christ makes the crossmarc ‘sign of the cross’ over the captives as he leads them up out of hell at the Harrowing. On the early history of the term ‘sign’ (σημεῖον, or signum) for the Cross, see Reijners 1965, 118-23, 160-87.

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