GunnLeif Merl I 70VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 138 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 70)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 106.
text and translation
‘Yppir fjǫllum fljótt Valbreta;
munu Brútus þau bera kórónu.
Grœnask ǫflgar eikr Kornbreta;
fagnar slíku fús Kambría.
‘Yppir fljótt fjǫllum Valbreta; þau munu bera kórónu Brútus. Ǫflgar eikr Kornbreta grœnask; fús Kambría fagnar slíku.
‘‘The mountains of French Britons will be swiftly raised up; they will bear the crown of Brutus. The mighty oaks of the Cornish Britons will grow green; eager Cambria rejoices at that. ’
notes and context
Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 149.112-13; cf. Wright 1988, 105, prophecy 20): tunc erumpent Armorici montes et diademate Bruti coronabuntur. Replebitur Kambria laeticia, et robora Cornubiae uirescent ‘then the hills of Brittany will burst forth and be crowned with Brutus’ diadem. Wales will be filled with rejoicing and the Cornish oaks will flourish’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 148). Geoffrey envisages an assumption of monarchical power in the British Isles on the part of the returning Bretons (cf. I 63) to the satisfaction of the British still resident in Wales and Cornwall.
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AM 544 4° (Hb) — 52r/29 - 52r/30
images‘Yppir fjǫllum
†fljot† valbreka;
munu Brútus þau
bera kórónu.
Grœnask ǫflgar
eikr Kornbreta;
fagnar slíku
fús Kambría.Ypper fiollvm fliot valbreka mvnv brvtvs þav bera koronv grꝍnaz av | flgar eikr kornbreta fagnar slikv fv́s cambria
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