Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 156 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 88)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 122.
‘Ok á hans dǫgum harðla brenna
ófs rammligar eikr ór skógum.
Enn á lítlum lindar kvistum
vex ǫrliga akarn í lundi.
‘Ok á dǫgum hans brenna ófs rammligar eikr ór skógum harðla. Enn vex akarn ǫrliga á lítlum kvistum lindar í lundi.
‘‘And in his days exceedingly mighty oaks from the forests will burn fiercely. Once more an acorn will grow rapidly on the slender twigs of the lime-tree in the grove. ’
Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.140-1; cf. Wright 1988, 107, prophecy 30): In diebus illis ardebunt quercus per nemora et in ramis tiliarum nascentur glandes ‘In those days oak trees will burn in the forests and acorns will grow on the branches of lindens’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 150).
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Ok a hans dogvm harðla brena ofs ramligar eikr or skogvm | en a litlvm lindar kvistvm vex avrlega akarn i lvndi
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