GunnLeif Merl II 28VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 28 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 28)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 160.
Vaxa ‘grow’
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vaxa (verb): grow, increase
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
allir ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
saman ‘together’
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saman (adv.): together
notes
[3] erut ‘are not’: Emended from ms. erat (refreshed) in Bret 1848-9 (eru-at) and apparently independently by Kock (NN §2741; Skald), followed by Merl 2012. Retained in Skj B, but the sg. verb does not agree with the immediately following pl. adj. and pron. Contrast the cases mentioned in the Note to I 36/9‑12.
gjarnir ‘eager’
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gjarn (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): eager
þeir ‘they’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
gótt ‘good’
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góðr (adj.): good
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
vinna ‘do’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
Refr ‘The fox’
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refr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): fox
á ‘its’
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2. eiga (verb; °á/eigr (præs. pl. 3. pers. eigu/eiga); átti, áttu; átt): own, have
móður ‘mother’
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móðir (noun f.): mother
ræðr ‘will attack’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
grimmliga ‘savagely’
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grimmliga (adv.): fiercely
tapar ‘will kill’
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tapa (verb): lose, abolish
henni ‘her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
sá ‘that’
kennings
sá týnir sauða‘that destroyer of sheep ’
= FOX
that destroyer of sheep → FOX
týnir ‘destroyer’
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týnir (noun m.): destroyer
kennings
sá týnir sauða‘that destroyer of sheep ’
= FOX
that destroyer of sheep → FOX
sauða ‘of sheep’
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sauðr (noun m.; °-ar/-s dat.-/-i; -ir): sheep
kennings
sá týnir sauða‘that destroyer of sheep ’
= FOX
that destroyer of sheep → FOX
es ‘will be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
gren ‘the lair’
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gren (noun n.; °; -): gren < grenbúi (noun m.): [lair-dweller]
kennings
grenbúi‘the lair-dweller ’
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the lair-dweller → FOX
búi ‘dweller’
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1. búi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): dweller, inhabitant < grenbúi (noun m.): [lair-dweller]
kennings
grenbúi‘the lair-dweller ’
= FOX
the lair-dweller → FOX
gjarn ‘eager’
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gjarn (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): eager
á ‘for’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
ríki ‘power’
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ríki (noun n.; °-s; -): kingdom, power
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Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 153.189; cf. Wright 1988, 109, prophecy 41): Deuorabit uulpes matrem ‘The fox will devour its mother’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 152). Gunnlaugr considerably amplifies Geoffrey’s text. — [8]: Attested kennings for ‘fox’ are few (Meissner 111), but the three that occur in this poem (see l. 9 here and II 39/3) have a parallel in Svart Skauf, where there are a number of nickname-like compounds for ‘fox’ and ‘vixen’, together with two kennings, grenlægja ‘the lair-lier [VIXEN]’ (4/2, 5/1) and sauðbítr ‘the sheep-biter [FOX]’ (18/6). — [9]: The kenning grenbúi ‘lair-dweller [FOX]’ is a hap. leg.; see Note to l. 8. The noun gren ‘lair’ was most commonly associated with foxes and the expression sem melrakka í greni ‘like a fox in its lair’ occurs frequently in relation to a humiliating capture or death (ONP: gren).
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