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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Sigv Lv 19I

[3-4] hóf ór heiðnum dómi ‘lifted out of heathendom’: Konráð Gíslason (1892, 205) argues that this is a secondary meaning for the phrase, and the meaning here should be the original one, ‘(lift up an unbaptized infant and) hold it over the baptismal font’. Olsen (1954, 190) compares the ecclesiastical expression suscipere de baptismo, lit. ‘lift out of baptism’.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Konráð Gíslason, ed. 1892a. Udvalg af oldnordiske skjaldekvad, med anmærkninger. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
  3. Olsen, Magnus. 1954. ‘Tova Sigvatsdatter’. MM, 189-96.

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