GunnLeif Merl II 1VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 1 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 134.
Ráðumk ‘I resolve’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
segja ‘to tell’
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segja (verb): say, tell
sund ‘of the channel’
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sund (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, strait; swimming < sundbál (noun n.): [fire sound]
[2] sundbáls: ‘svnbals’ Hb
kennings
viðum sundbáls‘the trees of the channel-fire ’
= MEN
the channel-fire → GOLD
the trees of the GOLD → MEN
notes
[2] sundbáls ‘of the channel-fire [GOLD]’: Ms. ‘svnbals’ (refreshed) is explained in Bret 1848-9 as representing sundbáls, to which Skj B emends (followed by Skald, Merl 2012 and this edn).
sund ‘of the channel’
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sund (noun n.; °-s; -): sound, strait; swimming < sundbál (noun n.): [fire sound]
[2] sundbáls: ‘svnbals’ Hb
kennings
viðum sundbáls‘the trees of the channel-fire ’
= MEN
the channel-fire → GOLD
the trees of the GOLD → MEN
notes
[2] sundbáls ‘of the channel-fire [GOLD]’: Ms. ‘svnbals’ (refreshed) is explained in Bret 1848-9 as representing sundbáls, to which Skj B emends (followed by Skald, Merl 2012 and this edn).
báls ‘fire’
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bál (noun n.; °-s; -): fire < sundbál (noun n.): [fire sound]
[2] sundbáls: ‘svnbals’ Hb
kennings
viðum sundbáls‘the trees of the channel-fire ’
= MEN
the channel-fire → GOLD
the trees of the GOLD → MEN
notes
[2] sundbáls ‘of the channel-fire [GOLD]’: Ms. ‘svnbals’ (refreshed) is explained in Bret 1848-9 as representing sundbáls, to which Skj B emends (followed by Skald, Merl 2012 and this edn).
báls ‘fire’
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bál (noun n.; °-s; -): fire < sundbál (noun n.): [fire sound]
[2] sundbáls: ‘svnbals’ Hb
kennings
viðum sundbáls‘the trees of the channel-fire ’
= MEN
the channel-fire → GOLD
the trees of the GOLD → MEN
notes
[2] sundbáls ‘of the channel-fire [GOLD]’: Ms. ‘svnbals’ (refreshed) is explained in Bret 1848-9 as representing sundbáls, to which Skj B emends (followed by Skald, Merl 2012 and this edn).
viðum ‘the trees’
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1. viðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -u/-i): wood, tree
kennings
viðum sundbáls‘the trees of the channel-fire ’
= MEN
the channel-fire → GOLD
the trees of the GOLD → MEN
spár ‘prophecies’
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1. spá (noun f.; °-r; -r/-ir): prophecy
spakligar ‘the wise’
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spakligr (adj.): wise
spámanns ‘prophet’
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spámaðr (noun m.): prophet
gǫfugs ‘of the noble’
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gǫfugr (adj.; °gǫfgan/gǫfugan; compar. gǫfgari/gǫfugri, superl. gǫfgastr/gǫfugstr/gǫfugastr): noble, glorious
’s ‘’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
á ‘in’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
breiðu ‘extensive’
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breiðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): broad, wide
Bretlandi ‘Britain’
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Bretland (noun n.)
notes
[6] sat ‘resided’: Added in Bret 1848-9, following scribal emendations in transcriptions of Hb (the transcriptions concerned are not specified, but ‘sat’ is added in AM 281 4o, 82r and in the margin of AM 597b 4o, 30r), and in turn followed by all subsequent eds. The line is metrically deficient as it stands in Hb.
hét ‘was called’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
Merlínus ‘Merlin’
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Merlínus (noun m.)
margvitr ‘wise in many things’
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margvitr (adj.): [wise in many ways]
gumi ‘the man’
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gumi (noun m.; °-a; gumar/gumnar): man
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