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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to GunnLeif Merl I 62VIII

[All]: Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 149.107-8; cf. Wright 1988, 105, prophecy 19): Deinde reuertentur ciues in insulam; nam discidium alienigenarum orietur ‘Then the natives will return to the island; for strife will break out among the foreigners’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 148). Here Geoffrey seems to envisage a return by the Bretons (living in Armorica, across the English Channel), to the British Isles, taking advantage of discord among the English. Their initial migration to Brittany is alluded to in I 37. The idea of the poor harvest is added by Gunnlaugr; see Note to I 32/5-8.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Reeve, Michael D., and Neil Wright. 2007. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum [Historia regum Britanniae]. Woodbridge: Boydell.
  3. Wright, Neil, ed. 1988. The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. II. The First Variant Version: A Critical Edition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.

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