GunnLeif Merl II 21VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 21 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 21)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 154.
En ‘And’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
it ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
horska ‘wise’
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horskr (adj.; °compar. -ari): wise
dýr ‘beast’
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1. dýr (noun n.; °-s (spec.: dyʀiɴs KonrA 66⁴, etc., cf. Seip 1955 188-189); -): animal
hlezk ‘will load himself’
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2. hlaða (verb): heap, pile
notes
[2] hlezk ... aldini ‘will load himself … with fruit’: Merl 2012 seeks a source for this motif in the Physiologus (Curley 2009, 24), which describes the hedgehog as collecting food for his young by rolling in fallen grapes so that they are skewered by his quills; to be noted, though, is that the fruit collected by the hedgehog-king is identified in DGB and, following him, Merl, as apples.
aldini ‘fruit’
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2. aldin (noun n.; °-s; -): orchard
notes
[2] hlezk ... aldini ‘will load himself … with fruit’: Merl 2012 seeks a source for this motif in the Physiologus (Curley 2009, 24), which describes the hedgehog as collecting food for his young by rolling in fallen grapes so that they are skewered by his quills; to be noted, though, is that the fruit collected by the hedgehog-king is identified in DGB and, following him, Merl, as apples.
harðla ‘with very’
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harðla (adv.): very, highly, greatly
góðu ‘good’
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góðr (adj.): good
hilmir ‘the king’
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hilmir (noun m.): prince, protector
velr ‘selects’
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velja (verb): choose
Koma ‘will come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
foglar ‘birds’
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fugl (noun m.): bird
þar ‘There’
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þar (adv.): there
fljúgandi ‘flying’
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fljúga (verb): fly
til ‘up’
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til (prep.): to
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
viðum ‘the woods’
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1. viðr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ir, acc. -u/-i): wood, tree
[7] viðum: ‘vogvm’ Hb
notes
[7] viðum ‘woods’: Emended in this edn from ms. ‘vogvm’ (refreshed), in view of DGB’s ‘forests’. Bret 1848-9 seems to interpret ‘vogvm’ as vágum, normally ‘bays’ (dat. pl.) but here understood as ‘depths’, with viða construed as ‘forests’ (gen. pl.): thus ‘depths of forests’, but that is scarcely possible. Skj B, followed by Skald and Merl 2012, has vegum ‘ways’, deviating from the sense of DGB.
víða ‘far and wide’
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1. víða (adv.): widely
vitja ‘to visit’
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vitja (verb): visit
epla ‘the apples’
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epli (noun n.; °-s; -): apple
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Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 153.172-3; cf. Wright 1988, 108, prophecy 36): oneratus pomis, ad quorum odorem diuersorum nemorum conuolabunt uolucres ‘laden with apples, to whose fragrance the birds will flock from various forests’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 152). — [1-4]: The ‘wise beast’ and the ‘king’ are one and the same, both nouns referring back to the hedgehog-king of II 19/1 (also II 22/1); cf. his designation as landreki ‘ruler’ in 19/4.
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