Note to GunnLeif Merl II 40^VIII

[All]: Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 155.198-200; cf. Wright 1988, 110, prophecy 43): Qui ut causam inierint, promittent ei duos pedes et aures et caudam et ex eis porcina membra component. Acquiescet ipse promissamque restaurationem expectabit ‘Plotting together, they will promise it two feet and ears and a tail to replace the boar’s members. The boar will consent and await their promised restitution’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 154). Merl differs from Geoffrey in being consistent about the number of feet and ears to be replaced. Altogether, the treatment in Merl is notably free, especially in its incorporation of direct speech, and suggests that Gunnlaugr had contemporary beast epic in mind (see Introduction).

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