[All]: Cf. DGB 112 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 147.66; cf. Wright 1988, 103, prophecy 7): Terminus illi positus est quem transuolare nequibit ‘A limit has been set for the white dragon beyond which it will not be able to fly’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 146). Gunnlaugr partially rationalises this prophecy of the Norman Conquest by explicitly mentioning rule over the land (cf. Note to I 32/5-8) and additionally invokes the concept of an over-ruling Fate (skǫp: cf. Fritzner: skǫp), as also in I 49/8. The Norman Conquest itself is narrated in I 46‑8.
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- 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.
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