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Salvum fac, Pater [noster], et Domine [deus omnipotens qui es trinus
et unus] for all Christians.
In adversity: Mitte mihi domine auxilium de sancto (Ps. 19,3).
After table: Benedicam dominum in omni tempore (Ps. 33).
Before sleep: Domine quis habitauit (Ps. 14).
For purposes of comparison with our Psalter, the only pertinent
items would be the Saint’s habit of singing one third of the Psalter
every day ‘with more between the psalms than other people sang’, and
of saying an un-specified prayer inscribed to St. Gregory. In the
collection of private prayers which follow the Psalter in MS A, there is
a prayer inscribed to St. Gregory (see p. 70), but we do not know
whether this collection of prayers originally belonged with the Psalter.
The reconstruction above of the last text of the Saint’s every-day
prayers, indicated in the manuscript only by Domine, may seem over-
confident. The prayer ‘Domine deus qui es trinus et unus’ does,
however, correspond exactly to the description of a prayer for all
Christians. Moreover, it was well-known in Iceland; it is among the
moming prayers used by St. Gudmund of Holar, according to the so-
called ‘middle Saga’ of the late thirteenth century. The author of the
‘middle’ Saga of St. Gudmund presents the saint’s moming prayers
merely as an enumeration of texts:11
Adesto nobis deus unus omnipotens pater et filius et sanctus spritus.
Abrenuntio sathanæ et omnibus operibus eius et omnibus pompis eius.
Credo in deum. Confiteor domino.
[Oratio.] Domine deus omnipotens qui es trinus et unus.
Ed. A: Wilmart, Auteurs spirituels, pp. 571-77. It appears in ninth-century manu-
scripts, see Wilmart: EL 49 (1935), p. 40.
[Oratio.] Omnipotens sempiteme deus dirige actus nostros.
= the prayer after ps. 50, no. 2.
[Oratio.] Assit nobis quesumus domine [virtus spiritus sancti que et
corda nostra elementer expurget, et ab omnibus tueatur aduersis. p. d.]
Bruylants 2, 44 Feria III post Pentecosten; Ha 535.
Ps. Usquequo domine. Pater noster. V. Delicta iuventutis. Ne
11 Biskupa sogur, 1 (1858), p. 586.