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Note to GunnLeif Merl I 24VIII

[All]: Cf. DGB 112 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 145.39-40; cf. Wright 1988, 102, prophecy 2): Aper etenim Cornubiae succursum praestabit et colla eorum sub pedibus suis conculcabit ‘The boar of Cornwall will lend his aid and trample the foreigners’ necks beneath his feet’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 144). The reference is to King Arthur. Gunnlaugr rationalises the animal allegory by describing the king as in a boar’s likeness rather than an actual boar. Geoffrey’s reference to Cornwall is omitted.

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. 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.
  3. Wright, Neil, ed. 1988. The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. II. The First Variant Version: A Critical Edition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.

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