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- Title
The Four Modes of Sin and the Cleansing of the Waters: The Fourth Grammatical Treatise, Chapter 21, Stanzas 48 and 50.
- Authors
Hill, Thomas D.
- Abstract
Medieval Icelanders defined their ideas about language, the composition of literature, grammar, and the relationship between Icelandic and Latin in a series of vernacular treatises. One such treatise, the fourteenth-century Fourth Grammatical Treatise, describes the forms and mechanics of writing skaldic poetry. In addition to rhetorical and grammatical information, it provides insight into to the Christian Latin material that was known or available to medieval Icelandic authors. Some of these texts, often neglected by scholars of literature, reflect ideas found in Gregory's Moralia in Iob, including his explanation of the four stages that sinners pass through as they move from temptation to mortal sin. It also reflects traditional exegesis of the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, in which Jesus is said to purify the water. These elucidations provide insight into the freedom, or lack thereof, that Icelandic authors had to translate and adapt Christian Latin terminology and concepts into vernacular texts and tightly structured skaldic verse.
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); ICELANDIC language; LATIN language; NATIVE language; MORTAL sin; BAPTISM of Jesus Christ
- Publication
Neophilologus, 2020, Vol 104, Issue 2, p235
- ISSN
0028-2677
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11061-019-09632-7