GunnLeif Merl II 51VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 51 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 51)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 178.
Verðr ‘will come to pass’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
foldu ‘the earth’
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fold (noun f.): land
kvað ‘said’
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kveða (verb; kveð, kvað, kveðinn): (str.) say, recite, sing
inn ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
fróði ‘wise’
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fróðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): wise
halr ‘man’
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halr (noun m.; °-s): man
styrjǫld ‘war’
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styrjǫld (noun f.; °-aldar; -aldir): conflict, war, battle
mikil ‘A great’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
stórar ‘great’
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stórr (adj.): large, great
ógnir ‘terrors’
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ógn (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): terror, battle
víg ‘battle’
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víg (noun n.; °-s; -): battle
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
vélar ‘treacheries’
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1. vél (noun f.; °-ar; -ar/-ir): deceit, trick; device
vargǫld ‘the time of the wolf’
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vargǫld (noun f.)
notes
[6] vargǫld ‘the time of the wolf’: De Vries (1964-7, II, 75 n. 179) compares Vsp 45/9.
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
kǫld ‘cold’
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kaldr (adj.; °compar. -ari): cold
notes
[6, 8] hjǫrtu … kǫld ‘hearts … cold’: The interpretation here follows that implicit in Skj B, with the verb verða ‘will grow’ understood from verðr in l. 1, the adj. kǫld construed as nom. pl. from kaldr ‘cold’ qualifying the n. nom. pl. hjǫrtu ‘hearts’ and the noun hrími ‘with frost’ construed as an instr. dat. from hrím ‘frost’. Bret 1848-9 (also Merl 2012, presumably independently) appears to construe kǫld as an otherwise unattested noun ‘cold’, in parallel with vargǫld, etc., but that leads to deficient syntax, with hjǫrtu seemingly understood as a virtual dat. i Hjerter ‘in hearts’. Similarly Merl 2012 im Herzen ‘in hearts’, but there hrími is construed as the nom. of the weak m. noun corresponding to n. hrím.
hrími ‘with frost’
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hrím (noun n.; °-s; -): rime frost
hvers ‘of every’
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2. hverr (pron.): who, whom, each, every
konar ‘kind’
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konr (noun m.; °-ar): kind, descendant
hjǫrtu ‘hearts’
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hjarta (noun n.; °-; *-u): heart
notes
[6, 8] hjǫrtu … kǫld ‘hearts … cold’: The interpretation here follows that implicit in Skj B, with the verb verða ‘will grow’ understood from verðr in l. 1, the adj. kǫld construed as nom. pl. from kaldr ‘cold’ qualifying the n. nom. pl. hjǫrtu ‘hearts’ and the noun hrími ‘with frost’ construed as an instr. dat. from hrím ‘frost’. Bret 1848-9 (also Merl 2012, presumably independently) appears to construe kǫld as an otherwise unattested noun ‘cold’, in parallel with vargǫld, etc., but that leads to deficient syntax, with hjǫrtu seemingly understood as a virtual dat. i Hjerter ‘in hearts’. Similarly Merl 2012 im Herzen ‘in hearts’, but there hrími is construed as the nom. of the weak m. noun corresponding to n. hrím.
lýða ‘of men’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
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[7]: This line is in the metre málaháttr.
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