Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2003, Side 33
Liturgy of St Knud Lavard - Introduction
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Finally, attention may be drawn to a number of non-latinised vemacular
name-forms, etc., that occur in the course of the text: 94 Hegothe (the
initial consonant is an inverted spelling), cf. Modem Danish Ejegod-,
100 Skialm, Modern Danish Skjalm-, 137 Slæsuuich, Modern Danish
Slesvig (note that the scribe does not use the graph æ when writing Latin
and that this is also the only occurrence of the spelling uu for w); 245
Knese, a Slavic loanword;33 269 Skatælar, Modern Danish Skadelår,
306-07 Gejnewathe, a now lost place-name (perhaps a ford over the
Lejre river, cf. modern Gevninge near Roskilde fjord);34 307 Balstorp,
modern Balstrup, near Ringsted; 316 Haralstath, modem Haraldsted,
near Ringsted; 744 Emune\ 745 Spache; 781 Grathæheth, Modem Da-
nish Grathe Hede. The orthographic correctness of the Old Danish forms
would confirm that the scribe was a native speaker of Danish.
2.2. Later manuscript extracts
Four manuscripts dating from the period ca. 1475-1715 are known to
contain material from the Knud Lavard liturgy. They are:
2.2.1. Uppsala, University Library C 447 (N). This volume of 320
leaves (18 of parchment, the rest paper, measuring ca. 16 x 11 cm) is a
breviary written by Johannes Svenonis (Hans Svendsen), a Danish-born
priest who died in 1511 as a monk at Vadstena, Sweden. The manuscript,
which is treated at some length in the Uppsala printed catalogue (And-
KatUUB5, 127-29), was first noticed by the Danish medievalist Ellen
Jørgensen, and a short passage from it was edited in 1910 in a supple-
ment to Gertz’s edition of the legend of St Vilhelm of Æbelholt (VSD
449, Addenda no. II). The material relating to St Knud Lavard was ap-
parently not recognised at that time.
Hans Svendsen First appears in the records in 1469, at which date he
is described as perpetuus vicarius of Lund Cathedral. A few years later
he resurfaces as parish priest in Nyborg on the island of Funen, where
33 Cf. etymological notes in Hans Olrik, Knud Lavards liv og gærning, Copenhagen 1888,
148-49.
34 Cf. Hans Olrik, Danske helgeners levned (1893-94), reprint Copenhagen 1968 [DHL],
134, n. 1.