GunnLeif Merl II 48VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 48 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 48)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 176.
Verða ‘will be’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
síðar ‘later’
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síðarr (adv.): later
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
sama ‘that same’
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samr (adj.; °compar. -ari): same
landi ‘land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
sjau ‘Seven’
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sjau (num. cardinal): seven
linni ‘to the snake’
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linnr (noun m.): snake
bornir ‘born’
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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry
Þeir ‘They’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
hafa ‘will have’
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hafa (verb): have
brúsa ‘of he-goats’
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brúsi (noun m.; °-a): he-goat
bǫlgjǫrn ‘the baleful’
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bǫlgjarn (adj.)
hǫfuð ‘heads’
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hǫfuð (noun n.; °-s; -): head
eru ‘will be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
dáðlausir ‘bereft of [noble] deeds’
dǫglings ‘the king’s’
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dǫglingr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, ruler
synir ‘sons’
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sonr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. syni; synir, acc. sonu, syni): son
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Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 157.228-9; cf. Wright 1988, 111, prophecy 53): Egredientur ex eo septem leones capitibus hircorum turpati ‘From it will emerge seven lions, disfigured with the heads of goats’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 156). Prophecies 47 to 52 inclusive are not represented in Merl; for the possibility that there is an extensive lacuna at this point in Hb see Merl 2012, 39-44).
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