[1] mær ok móðir ‘maiden and mother’: This is the first pairing of these alliterative appellatives in ON poetry. The pair appears in the C14th in Lil 3/1, 34/3 (mey), Anon Pét 6, 3/4, and Anon Mv II 22/1-2, later also in Náð 5/1-2, Máría móðirin skæra 1/1-2, Máríublóm 40/1, etc. (ÍM II, 5; II, 48; I.2. 180).
References
- Bibliography
- ÍM = Jón Helgason, ed. 1936-8. Íslenzk miðaldarkvæði: Islandske digte fra senmiddelalderen. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Munksgaard.
- Internal references
- David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 6’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 8001.
- Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Lilja 3’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 565-6.