Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 62 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 62)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 185.
Væri mart mǫnnum kynna
ór folkstafs fornu kvæði.
Ek mun þó þeygi fleira
Þróttar þings þollum segja.
Mart væri kynna mǫnnum ór fornu kvæði {folkstafs}. Ek mun þó þeygi segja {þollum {þings Þróttar}} fleira.
‘There would be many things to inform men [about] from the old poem of the people-stave [LEADER = Merlin]. I will however not say more to the fir-trees of the assembly of Þróttr <= Óðinn> [BATTLE > WARRIORS]. ’
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Uæri mart monnvᴍ kynna or folk | stafs fornv kvæði ek mvn þo þeygi fleira þrottar þings þollvm segia
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