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GunnLeif Merl II 11VIII

Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 11 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 11)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 144.

Gunnlaugr LeifssonMerlínusspá II
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þá ‘then’

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2. þá (adv.): then

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it ‘the’

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2. inn (art.): the

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vatn ‘water’

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vatn (noun n.; °-s; -*): water, lake

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ok ‘and’

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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also

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við ‘with’

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2. við (prep.): with, against

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magnask ‘will increase’

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magna (verb): strengthen, increase

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Berr ‘will bear’

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3. bera (verb; °berr; bar, báru; borinn): bear, carry

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[5] hon … berr ‘she … will bear’: Skj B deletes hon, but Kock (NN §94) defends the parallelism of noun and pronominal, pointing out internal inconsistencies in the treatment of pron. subjects in Skj B. Cf. Note to II 10/7.

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hon ‘She’

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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...

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[5] hon … berr ‘she … will bear’: Skj B deletes hon, but Kock (NN §94) defends the parallelism of noun and pronominal, pointing out internal inconsistencies in the treatment of pron. subjects in Skj B. Cf. Note to II 10/7.

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í ‘in’

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í (prep.): in, into

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hœgri ‘right’

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hœgri (adj. comp.): higher, highest

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kynstór ‘of high lineage’

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kynstórr (adj.): high-born

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Kolídónis ‘of Colidon’

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[8] Kolídónis ‘of Colidon’: Gunnlaugr retains the Latin gen. sg. Cf. I 63/2. The identity of the forest is unknown (cf. Tatlock 1950, 16-17).

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skóg ‘the forest’

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skógr (noun m.; °-ar/-s, dat. -i; -ar): forest

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en ‘and’

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2. en (conj.): but, and

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í ‘in’

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í (prep.): in, into

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lófa ‘her palm’

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lófi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): palm of hand

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man ‘the maiden’

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man (noun n.): girl

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[9] man ‘the maiden’: The difficulties raised by this reading have not so far been satisfactorily resolved. This edn follows Kock (NN §1281; Skald) in retaining ms. man (not refreshed), construed as a noun, ‘maiden’, in parallel structure with kona ‘woman’ in l. 7; so too Merl 2012. For the syntax cf. Note to II 10/7. The reading man is also retained in Bret 1848-9, which translates l. 9 as i den hule Haand ‘in the cupped hand’, with a note explaining that this interpretation is prompted by the Latin. No such sense of man is attested (unless an otherwise unknown heiti for ‘hand’ from Lat. manus, Fr. main is to be posited), but a mention of the maiden’s left hand would indeed be expected, so as to complement that of her right hand, as presupposed by both the Latin and l. 5 of the present stanza. Skj B emends to mun, presumably understood as an auxiliary verb with assumed bera.

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Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.157-153.159; cf. Wright 1988, 108, prophecy 33): Exin, ut sese salubri liquore refecerit, gestabit in dextera sua nemus Colidonis, in sinistra uero murorum Lundoniae propugnacula ‘Next, refreshing herself with healing water, she will bear in her right hand the forest of Colidon and in her left the battlements of London’s walls’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 150-2).

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