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Note to Anon (FoGT) 32III

[All]: The second helmingr of st. 32, which is in dróttkvætt metre, is a very clever rendition into Icelandic of the Latin text of Ps. 50.16 Et exultabit lingua mea justitiam tuam ‘And my tongue will exult your righteousness’. A version of the quotation from the psalm is given in the Doctrinale (Reichling 1893, 176, ll. 2615-16) as an example of euphemismos. After the stanza, the prose text explains that the verb hlakka ‘cry out, rejoice, exult’ is used here instead of the more common hefja upp ‘raise, exalt’ in order to replace a less prestigious with a more prestigious word.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Reichling, Dietrich, ed. 1893. Das Doctrinale des Alexander de Villa-Dei. Monumenta Germaniae paedagogica 12. Berlin: A. Hofmann & Comp. Rpt. 1974. Burt Franklin Research and Source Works Series, Studies in the History of Education 11. New York: Burt Franklin.

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