Note to Anon Líkn 30VII
[All]: This st. marks the beginning of the poem’s several direct references to the liturgy for Good Friday, including the Adoration of the Cross (adoratio crucis) and the Reproaches (improperia) of Christ from the Cross (see sts 43-5), signalled by the phrase Mín þjóð ‘O my people’ 45/1, echoing the recurrent Popule meus of the rite. Between these two markers (sts 30 and 45), the poet draws occasional images from the two famous Cross hymns by Venantius Fortunatus (C6th), Pange lingua (sung during the Adoration) and Vexilla regis (the processional hymn at its conclusion); these allusions are pointed out in the Notes. On the history of the rite, see Römer 1955 and Schmidt 1956-7, II, 789-803; for Scandinavia, Gjerløw 1961 and Björkman 1957, 266-7, 282-5; on Líkn, Tate 1978.
References
- Bibliography
- Björkman, Ulf. 1957. Stilla veckan i gudstjänst och fromhetsliv. Bibliotheca theologiae practicae 2. Lund: Gleerup.
- Schmidt, Herman A. 1956-7. Hebdomada Sancta. 2 vols. Rome: Herder.
- Tate, George S. 1978. ‘Good Friday Liturgy and the Structure of Líknarbraut’. SS 50, 31-8.
- Gjerløw, Lilli. 1961. Adoratio Crucis: The Regularis concordia and The Decreta Lanfranci: Manuscript studies in the early medieval church of Norway. Oslo and Boston: Norwegian Universities Press.
- Internal references
- George S. Tate 2007, ‘ Anonymous, Líknarbraut’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 228-86. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=1024> (accessed 27 April 2024)