GunnLeif Merl II 45VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 44 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 45)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 174.
Ok ‘And’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
sjalfan ‘self’
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sjalfr (adj.): self
sik ‘him’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
síðan ‘will then’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
festir ‘fix’
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2. festa (verb): fasten, betrothe, promise
léparðs ‘a leopard’s’
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léparðr (noun m.)
notes
[3] léparðs ‘a leopard’s’: Geoffrey clearly specifies a lion but, in common with much medieval literature and heraldry, Gunnlaugr does not seem to distinguish lions from leopards consistently. In the Second-family Bestiary, from the later C12th, Pliny is cited as stating (Historia naturalis 8.17.42-3) that the lion mates with the female pard, or the pard with the lioness, and from each coupling degenerate young are created. It is this irregular union of lion and pard that was regarded as making the leopard a ‘bad lion’ (Clark 2006, 122-3 and n. 22).
hǫfuð ‘head’
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hǫfuð (noun n.; °-s; -): head
lofðungr ‘the ruler’
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lofðungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, leader
at ‘with’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
Ræðr ‘will rule over’
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ráða (verb): advise, rule, interpret, decide
hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
lýðum ‘peoples’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
lofða ‘of men’
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lofði (noun m.; °; -ar): man
fjǫlð ‘a multitude’
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fjǫlð (noun f.): multitude
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
þrýtr ‘is the end’
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þrýta (verb): [disappears]
þessa ‘of this’
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1. sjá (pron.; °gen. þessa dat. þessum/þeima, acc. þenna; f. sjá/þessi; n. þetta, dat. þessu/þvísa; pl. þessir): this
þengils ‘of the king’
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þengill (noun m.): prince, ruler
sǫgu ‘story’
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1. saga (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): story, saga
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For discussion of the stanza order see II 44 Note to [All]. Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 155.204; cf. Wright 1988, 110, prophecy 44): atque capite leonis coronabitur ‘and be crowned with a lion’s head’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 154). Having destroyed its rivals while in the semblance of a boar, the fox-king makes his final transformation – to a lion. — [5-8]: The episode is rounded off in an approximation of saga style (Poole 2009a, 317).
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