Note to GunnLeif Merl I 49^VIII

[4] skeyti ‘an arrow’: Taken literally in Merl; the notion of invidia ‘envy’ is absent. This indeed fits well with the manner of death of William Rufus and may point to Gunnlaugr’s familiarity with the accounts of either Henry of Huntingdon (HA 1996, 446-7: Ubi Walterus Tirel cum sagitta ceruo intendens regem percussit inscius ‘There Walter Tirel, aiming at a stag, accidentally hit the king with an arrow’) or William of Malmesbury (Mynors et al. 1998-9, I, 504-5: sagitta pectus … traiectus ‘pierced … by an arrow in the breast’ and cf. Mynors et al. 1998-9, I, 574-5).

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