GunnLeif Merl II 42VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 42 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 42)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 172.
‘“Trú mér, galti! Munk heill vesa;
svík ek aldregi svín í tryggðum.
Fund skulum leggja ok frið gera;
skaltu einn gera okkar í millim.”
‘“Trú mér, galti! Munk vesa heill; ek svík aldregi svín í tryggðum. Skulum leggja fund ok gera frið; skaltu einn gera í millim okkar.”
‘“Trust me, boar! I will be honourable; I will never deceive the pig in truces. We will set a meeting and devise a safe-conduct; you alone will determine between us two.”
Mss: Hb(50r) (Bret)
Readings: [2] Munk: ek ek man Hb
Editions: Skj AII, 18, Skj BII, 18-19, Skald II, 12, NN §2163A; Bret 1848-9, II, 31 (Bret st. 42); Hb 1892-6, 275; Merl 2012, 106.
Notes: [All]: Cf. DGB 116, as for II 41. — [1-2]: Kock (NN §2163A; Skald) suggests emendation of trú to hlýð ‘hear’, yielding alliteration with heill. — [2] munk ‘I will’: Corrected from ms. ek ek man (not refreshed) to ek man by Bret 1848-9 and Merl 2012. Skj B (followed by Skald and this edn) emends to munk ‘I will’. — [7] gera ‘determine’: For this sense of gera see CVC: göra IV; Fritzner: gera 12. In a legal embellishment to Geoffrey’s narrative, Gunnlaugr has the fox deceptively offering the boar sole judgement (sjálfdœmi) in the dispute between them.
References
- Bibliography
- Skj B = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1912-15b. Den norsk-islandske skjaldedigtning. B: Rettet tekst. 2 vols. Copenhagen: Villadsen & Christensen. Rpt. 1973. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger.
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- CVC = Cleasby, Richard, Gudbrand Vigfusson [Guðbrandur Vigfússon] and W. A. Craigie. 1957. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2nd edn. Oxford: Clarendon.
- Fritzner = Fritzner, Johan. 1883-96. Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog. 3 vols. Kristiania (Oslo): Den norske forlagsforening. 4th edn. Rpt. 1973. Oslo etc.: Universitetsforlaget.
- Hb 1892-6 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1892-6. Hauksbók udgiven efter de Arnamagnæanske håndskrifter no. 371, 544 og 675, 4° samt forskellige papirshåndskrifter. Copenhagen: Det kongelige nordiske oldskrift-selskab.
- Bret 1848-9 = Jón Sigurðsson. 1848-9. ‘Trójumanna saga ok Breta sögur, efter Hauksbók, med dansk Oversættelse’. ÅNOH 1848, 3-215; 1849, 3-145.
- Merl 2012 = Horst, Simone, ed. 2012. Merlínússpá. Merlins Prophezeiung. Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Unattributed, Breta saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 38. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=125> (accessed 19 April 2024)
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