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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to GunnLeif Merl I 70VIII

[3] Brútus ‘of Brutus’: Latin nom. form, used with gen. function (cf. I 53/12, 72/4). Brutus is mentioned by virtue of his supposed status as the eponymous founder of the British people, as implied in the next stanza (cf. DGB I 21.459-60: Reeve and Wright 2007, 28-9); the Bretons are said to take on his crown because it is they who are asserting ancient British rights on behalf of all British peoples.

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.

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