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 segja sundbáls viðum
spár spakligar spámanns gǫfugs,
þess’s á breiðu Bretlandi sat;
hét Merlínus margvitr gumi.
Ráðumk segja {viðum {sundbáls}} spakligar spár gǫfugs spámanns, þess’s sat á breiðu Bretlandi; margvitr gumi hét Merlínus.
I resolve to tell {the trees {of the channel-fire}} [GOLD > MEN] the wise prophecies of the noble prophet, who resided in extensive Britain; the man wise in many things was called Merlin.
Mss: Hb(49r) (Bret)
Readings: [2] sundbáls: ‘svnbals’ Hb [6] sat: om. Hb
Editions: Skj AII, 10, Skj BII, 10, Skald II, 6; Bret 1848-9, II, 14 (Bret st. 1); Hb 1892-6, 272; Merl 2012, 64-6.
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). — [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.
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