GunnLeif Merl II 58VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 58 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 58)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 183.
‘En grund ept þat gróða hafnar;
né skúr ofan ór skýjum kemr.
Sól ok máni sjǫlf annan veg
fara fagrskǫpuð, en þau fyrr hafi.
‘En grund hafnar gróða ept þat; né kemr skúr ofan ór skýjum. Sól ok máni sjǫlf, fagrskǫpuð, fara annan veg, en þau fyrr hafi.
‘But the earth will lose its fecundity after that; nor will the shower descend from the clouds. The sun and the moon themselves, beautifully created, will take a different path from the one they have [taken] previously.
Mss: Hb(50v) (Bret)
Editions: Skj AII, 20, Skj BII, 22, Skald II, 14; Bret 1848-9, II, 35-6 (Bret st. 58); Hb 1892-6, 276; Merl 2012, 119-20.
Notes: [All]: Gunnlaugr appears to be summarising Geoffrey’s description of the disruption of the heavenly bodies in prophecies 72 and 73, especially 72 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 159.288-9): Arebunt segetes his indignantibus, et humor conuexi negabitur ‘Because of their wrath crops will wither and moisture from the sky will be denied’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 158; cf. Wright 1988, 114). — [7] fagrskǫpuð ‘beautifully created’: A hap. leg. in poetry; the sole prose attestation occurs in Kgs (Holm-Olsen 1983, 98; cf. ONP: fagrskapaðr). — [8] þau ‘they’: Omitted in Skald.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
- Holm-Olsen, Ludvig, ed. 1983. Konungs skuggsiá. 2nd rev. edn. Norrøne tekster 1. Oslo: Norsk historisk kjeldeskrift-institutt.
- Hb 1892-6 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1892-6. Hauksbók udgiven efter de Arnamagnæanske håndskrifter no. 371, 544 og 675, 4° samt forskellige papirshåndskrifter. Copenhagen: Det kongelige nordiske oldskrift-selskab.
- Bret 1848-9 = Jón Sigurðsson. 1848-9. ‘Trójumanna saga ok Breta sögur, efter Hauksbók, med dansk Oversættelse’. ÅNOH 1848, 3-215; 1849, 3-145.
- 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.
- Wright, Neil, ed. 1988. The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. II. The First Variant Version: A Critical Edition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.
- Merl 2012 = Horst, Simone, ed. 2012. Merlínússpá. Merlins Prophezeiung. Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Unattributed, Breta saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 38. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=125> (accessed 13 May 2024)
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