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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to GunnLeif Merl I 32VIII

[All]: Cf. DGB 112 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 147.51-5; cf. Wright 1988, 102, prophecy 4): Tunc infortunium albi festinabit et aedificia ortulorum eius diruentur … Ventres matrum secabuntur, et infantes abortiui erunt. Erit ingens supplicium hominum ut indigenae restituantur ‘Then the misfortune of the white will be hastened and the buildings in its gardens be destroyed … Mothers’ bellies will be cut open and infants aborted. People will suffer greatly in order that the natives be restored’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 146). The prophecy refers to the reconquest of the Britons led by King Caduallo recounted in DGB XI (Reeve and Wright 2007, 272-3).

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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