Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 44 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 45)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 174.
‘Ok á sjalfan sik síðan festir
léparðs hǫfuð lofðungr at þat.
Ræðr hann lýðum ok lofða fjǫlð;
þar þrýtr þessa þengils sǫgu.
‘Ok lofðungr festir síðan hǫfuð léparðs á sik sjalfan at þat. Hann ræðr lýðum ok fjǫlð lofða; þar þrýtr sǫgu þessa þengils.
‘‘And with that the ruler will then fix a leopard’s head on himself. He will rule over peoples and a multitude of men; there is the end of this story of the king. ’
For discussion of the stanza order see II 44 Note to [All]. Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 155.204; cf. Wright 1988, 110, prophecy 44): atque capite leonis coronabitur ‘and be crowned with a lion’s head’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 154). Having destroyed its rivals while in the semblance of a boar, the fox-king makes his final transformation – to a lion. — [5-8]: The episode is rounded off in an approximation of saga style (Poole 2009a, 317).
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Ok a sialfan sig | siþan festir leparðz hofvð lofðvng[...] þat ræðr hann lyðvm ok lofþa fiolð þar þrytr þersa | þengils sogv
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