[4] heims prýði ‘world’s adornment’: Cf. Alcuin’s famous acrostic hymn Crux decus est mundi ‘The Cross is the adornment of the world’ (Szövérffy 1976, 25; Dümmler 1881, 224-5), and from a later hymn salve mundi gloria / ... dulce decus saeculi ‘hail, glory of the world, ... sweet adornment of the world’ (Mone 1853-5, I, 111). Mary is called heims prýði in Mdr 11/2.
References
- Bibliography
- Dümmler, Ernst, ed. 1881. Poetae latini aevi carolini 1. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Poetae latini medii aevi 1. Rpt. 1964. Berlin: Weidmann.
- Szövérffy, Joseph. 1976. Hymns of the Holy Cross. Medieval Classics: Texts and Studies 7. Brookline, Mass.: Classical Folia Editions.
- Mone, Franz Joseph, ed. 1853-5. Hymni latini medii aevi. 3 vols. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder.
- Internal references
- Katrina Attwood (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Máríudrápa 11’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 487-8.