GunnLeif Merl II 43VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 43 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 43)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 172.
Es ‘will be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
fundr ‘A meeting’
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fundr (noun m.): discovery, meeting
lagiðr ‘set’
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leggja (verb): put, lay
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
friðr ‘a safe-conduct’
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friðr (noun m.): peace
samiðr ‘concluded’
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2. semja (verb): befit
koma ‘will come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
mildingar ‘the leaders’
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mildingr (noun m.; °-s): ruler, generous one
málstefnu ‘the council’
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málstefna (noun f.)
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[4] málstefnu ‘the council’: The sole attestation of this cpd in poetry. Cf. mæltrar stefnu ‘appointed meeting’ in Halli XI Fl 3/4II, a poem that exhibits a similar interest in procedures concerning truces and meetings.
til ‘to ’
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til (prep.): to
En ‘But’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
á ‘at’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
fundi ‘meeting’
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fundr (noun m.): discovery, meeting
flærðir ‘treacheries’
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flærð (noun f.): falsehood, deceit
reynask ‘will come to pass’
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reyna (verb): test, try, experience
banar ‘will slay’
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bana (verb; °-að-): kill
hertoga ‘the war-leader’
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hertogi (noun m.): duke
brezkr ‘the British’
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brezkr (adj.): British
landreki ‘ruler’
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landreki (noun m.): land-ruler
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Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 155.202; cf. Wright 1988, 110, prophecy 44): et ipsum totum deuorabit ‘and will eat him whole’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 154). Here the usurping fox, disguised as the wolf, consumes the boar-king: Geoffrey’s animal symbolism is rationalised in Merl. Gunnlaugr also elaborates on the establishment of the truce, both here and in the preceding stanza.
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