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Note to GunnLeif Merl II 29VIII

[All]: Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 153.189-91; cf. Wright 1988, 109, prophecy 41): et asininum caput gestabit. Monstro igitur assumpto, terrebit fratres suos ipsosque in Neustriam fugabit ‘and wear the head of an ass. Taking on the form of a monster, therefore, it will frighten its brothers and drive them off to Normandy’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 152). Gunnlaugr omits the mention of Neustria (Normandy) as the brothers’ place of refuge, perhaps because the wild boar whose aid they enlist in the following stanza is more to be associated with Cornwall. Cf. Note to II 31/7-8.

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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