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Note to Anon (FoGT) 37III

[5-8]: The stanza’s second helmingr depends upon the second patristic example mentioned in the first Note to [All] above, Ps. XLI. 8 Abyssus abyssum inuocat, in uoce cataractarum tuarum ‘Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts’. The prose gloss attributes its interpretation of Ps. XLI.8 to leo paví hinn mꜳl sníálle ‘Pope Leo the eloquent’, probably Leo the Great. McDougall (1988, 481) proposed this might be a reference to the sixtieth tractate of Pope Leo, also available in the homiliary of Paul the Deacon. The prose gloss proposes an allegorical reading of the voice of the two vatnadjúp ‘abysses’, the one above the heavens, the other below it, on several levels, including their identification with the old and new laws and the teachings of prophets and apostles. McDougall (loc. cit.) adduces several conventional examples of such parallels.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. McDougall, David. 1988. ‘“Pseudo-Augustinian” Passages in “Jóns saga baptista 2” and the “Fourth Grammatical Treatise”’. Traditio 44, 463-83.

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