GunnLeif Merl II 53VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 53 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 53)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 179.
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‘Hagr gerisk hǫlða hættr í mǫrgu;
munat fyrða ráð fagrt at reyna.
Dyljask drjúgum draums ívaðendr;
við sjalfa sik sjásk ekki at.
‘Hagr hǫlða gerisk hættr í mǫrgu; munat fagrt at reyna ráð fyrða. Ívaðendr draums dyljask drjúgum; sjásk ekki at við sik sjalfa.
‘‘The state of men will become perilous in many ways; it will not be good to test the conduct of men. Wanderers in a dream, they will be massively deluded; they will not take heed about themselves. ’
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AM 544 4° (Hb) — 50v/5 - 50v/6
images‘Hagr gerisk hǫlða
hættr í mǫrgu;
munat fyrða ráð
fagr at reyna.
Dyljask drjúgum
†dráms† ívaðendr;
við sjalfa sik
sjásk ekki at.Hagr geriz havlda hættr i morgv mvnað fyrða rað fagr at reyna | dyliaz drivgvm dráms i vaðendr við síalfa síg síaz eckí at.
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