[9-12]: The word order is somewhat convoluted, since sex ‘six’ must be taken, for sense and match with Geoffrey’s text, with lifra ‘brothers’, not snarpir kynsmenn ‘bold kinsmen’ (contrast Bret 1848‑9).
References
- Internal references
- Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 18 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 18)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 152.