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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to GunnLeif Merl I 74VIII

[All]: Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 149.118-51.119; cf. Wright 1988, 106, prophecy 22): Succedet hircus Venerii Castri, aurea habens cornua et argenteam barbam ‘The goat of the Fortress of Venus, with golden horns and a silver beard, will succeed him’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 148‑50). The reference to Venus in DGB is not taken up explicitly in Merl, at least as extant (cf. I 76 Note to [All]), but the concept of her castle is conveyed indirectly in the words kastra kvensemi ‘castles of desire for women’ (I 76/5-6).

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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