GunnLeif Merl II 41VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 41 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 41)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 171.
En ‘But’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
refr ‘the fox’
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refr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): fox
ofan ‘down’
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ofan (adv.): down
renn ‘will run’
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2. renna (verb): run (strong)
ór ‘from’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
fjalli ‘the mountain’
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1. fjall (noun n.): mountain
ferr ‘will go’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
fárhugaðr ‘the baleful one’
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fárhugaðr (adj.): [little-hearted]
finna ‘to meet’
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2. finna (verb): find, meet
galta ‘the boar’
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galti (noun m.): boar
Hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
býðr ‘will offer’
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bjóða (verb; °býðr; bauð, buðu; boðinn (buð- Thom¹ 5²n.)): offer, order, invite
sættir ‘a settlement’
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sætt (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): settlement
af ‘out of’
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af (prep.): from
svikum ‘treachery’
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1. svik (noun n.; °-s; -): deceit, treachery; poison
einum ‘pure’
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1. einn (num. cardinal; °f. ein, n. eitt; pl. einir; superl. debil. -asti(Anna238(2001) 155³²)): one; alone
kvezk ‘he will say’
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2. kveðja (verb; kvaddi): (dd) request, address, greet
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[7] hann ‘he’: Omitted in Skald.
mart ‘many things’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
við ‘with’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
svín ‘the pig’
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svín (noun n.; °-s; -): swine, pig
mæla ‘to discuss’
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1. mæla (verb): speak, say
vilja ‘wishes’
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vilja (verb): want, intend
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Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 155.200-2; cf. Wright 1988, 110, prophecy 44): Interim descendet uulpes de montibus et sese in lupum mutabit et quasi colloquium habitura cum apro adibit illum callide ‘Meanwhile the fox will come down from the mountains, transform itself into the wolf, cunningly approach as if to talk with the boar’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 154). The transformation of the fox into a wolf does not appear in Merl.
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