GunnLeif Merl II 7VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 7 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 7)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 140.
Illr ‘bad’
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illr (adj.): bad, evil, unwell
es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
annarr ‘The second’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
allir ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
svelta ‘will die’
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1. svelta (verb): die, hunger (strong, intrans.)
þeirs ‘those who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
notes
[3-4] bergja drekku af bekki ‘taste a drink from the stream’: The refreshed reading bekkjar is emended to bekki ‘stream’ (dat. sg.) in this edn. Bret, Skj B, Skald and Merl 2012 have bergja af drekku bekkjar ‘taste a drink of the stream’, lit. ‘taste from a drink of the stream’. But the emendation provides a better fit with the attestations of bergja in ONP: bergja 1, where the prep. af represents the source of the thing tasted rather than the thing itself.
bekki ‘the stream’
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2. bekkr (noun m.; °-jar/-s, dat. -/-i; -ir): spring
[3] bekki: bekkjar Hb
notes
[3-4] bergja drekku af bekki ‘taste a drink from the stream’: The refreshed reading bekkjar is emended to bekki ‘stream’ (dat. sg.) in this edn. Bret, Skj B, Skald and Merl 2012 have bergja af drekku bekkjar ‘taste a drink of the stream’, lit. ‘taste from a drink of the stream’. But the emendation provides a better fit with the attestations of bergja in ONP: bergja 1, where the prep. af represents the source of the thing tasted rather than the thing itself.
bergja ‘taste’
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bergja (verb; °-gð-): taste
notes
[3-4] bergja drekku af bekki ‘taste a drink from the stream’: The refreshed reading bekkjar is emended to bekki ‘stream’ (dat. sg.) in this edn. Bret, Skj B, Skald and Merl 2012 have bergja af drekku bekkjar ‘taste a drink of the stream’, lit. ‘taste from a drink of the stream’. But the emendation provides a better fit with the attestations of bergja in ONP: bergja 1, where the prep. af represents the source of the thing tasted rather than the thing itself.
drekku ‘a drink’
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1. drekka (noun f.; °-u): [drink, banquet]
notes
[3-4] bergja drekku af bekki ‘taste a drink from the stream’: The refreshed reading bekkjar is emended to bekki ‘stream’ (dat. sg.) in this edn. Bret, Skj B, Skald and Merl 2012 have bergja af drekku bekkjar ‘taste a drink of the stream’, lit. ‘taste from a drink of the stream’. But the emendation provides a better fit with the attestations of bergja in ONP: bergja 1, where the prep. af represents the source of the thing tasted rather than the thing itself.
Þó ‘Yet’
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þó (adv.): though
s ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
inn ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
þriðja ‘third’
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þriði (num. ordinal): third
þyngst ‘most grievous’
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þungr (adj.): heavy
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
reyna ‘try’
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reyna (verb): test, try, experience
deyja ‘will die’
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1. deyja (verb; °deyr; dó, dó(u); dá(i)nn): die
allir ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
es ‘who’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
þar ‘it’
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þar (adv.): there
drekka ‘drink’
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2. drekka (verb; °drekkr; drakk, drukku; drukkinn/drykkinn): drink
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
né ‘nor will’
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né (conj.): nor
hræ ‘corpses’
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hræ (noun n.; °; -): corpse, carrion
guma ‘men’s’
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gumi (noun m.; °-a; gumar/gumnar): man
hyljask ‘be covered’
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2. hylja (verb): to bury, cover, inhume
foldu ‘with earth’
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fold (noun f.): land
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Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.149-51; cf. Wright 1988, 107, prophecy 31): Qui bibet de altero indeficienti fame peribit, et in facie ipsius pallor et horror sedebit. Qui bibet de tercio subita morte periclitabitur, nec corpus ipsius subire poterit sepulchrum ‘Whoever drinks from the second will die of a thirst that cannot be quenched, and a ghastly pallor will appear on his face. Whoever drinks from the third will die a sudden death, and no one will be able to bury his body’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 150). The notion of pallor et horror is not represented in Merl.
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