GunnLeif Merl II 57VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 57 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 57)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 182.
Lifir ‘will live’
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lifa (verb): live
in ‘The’
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2. inn (art.): the
notes
[1-2] in danska drótt ‘the Danish people’: The apparently anti-Danish polemics are Gunnlaugr’s contribution; the foundation of a metropolitan see in Norway in 1153 severed older allegiances of the Icelandic bishoprics with Lund in what was then Denmark (cf. Foote 1975, 73). However, the adj. dansk may sometimes apply to Scandinavians generally, especially in the phrase dǫnsk tunga ‘Danish tongue’, which acquired the generalised meaning ‘Scandinavian language’ at least as early as the C11th (cf. Sigv Víkv 15/8I and Note; see also SnE 1998, I, 52, 80).
danska ‘Danish’
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danskr (adj.): Danish
notes
[1-2] in danska drótt ‘the Danish people’: The apparently anti-Danish polemics are Gunnlaugr’s contribution; the foundation of a metropolitan see in Norway in 1153 severed older allegiances of the Icelandic bishoprics with Lund in what was then Denmark (cf. Foote 1975, 73). However, the adj. dansk may sometimes apply to Scandinavians generally, especially in the phrase dǫnsk tunga ‘Danish tongue’, which acquired the generalised meaning ‘Scandinavian language’ at least as early as the C11th (cf. Sigv Víkv 15/8I and Note; see also SnE 1998, I, 52, 80).
drótt ‘people’
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1. drótt (noun f.): troop
notes
[1-2] in danska drótt ‘the Danish people’: The apparently anti-Danish polemics are Gunnlaugr’s contribution; the foundation of a metropolitan see in Norway in 1153 severed older allegiances of the Icelandic bishoprics with Lund in what was then Denmark (cf. Foote 1975, 73). However, the adj. dansk may sometimes apply to Scandinavians generally, especially in the phrase dǫnsk tunga ‘Danish tongue’, which acquired the generalised meaning ‘Scandinavian language’ at least as early as the C11th (cf. Sigv Víkv 15/8I and Note; see also SnE 1998, I, 52, 80).
at ‘on’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
holdi ‘meat’
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hold (noun n.; °-s; -): flesh
gerir ‘do’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
eyvit ‘nothing’
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eyvit (adv.): nothing, not at all
sér ‘’
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sik (pron.; °gen. sín, dat. sér): (refl. pron.)
notes
[4] ǫlðri ‘ale-drinking’: Emended from ms. ǫlð (refreshed) (Poole 2009a, 312). The Hb text features regular use of superscript contraction for <ri>, e.g. in eit<ri> (fol. 51r l. 16), which could easily be obscured by refreshing. For the sentiment, compare ofdrykkja ‘excessive drinking’ (II 56/7); also II 52/3-4. The ms. reading is retained in Bret 1848-9, Skj B and Skald, evidently in the sense of ‘people’; in Skj B ll. 3-4 are translated loosely as og gör intet mod sig selv (sine lyster) ‘and does nothing against itself (its pleasures)’ (Bret 1848-9 similarly). Merl 2012 also retains the ms. reading, but with translation of ǫlð as Schicksal ‘fate’, which is hard to account for unless by confusion with ørlǫg ‘fate’.
at ‘to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
móti ‘resist’
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móti (prep.): against
Því ‘Therefore’
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því (adv.): therefore, because
munu ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
in ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
kennings
in tígnu tíðmǫrk himins‘the glorious time-markers of heaven ’
= HEAVENLY BODIES
the glorious time-markers of heaven → HEAVENLY BODIES
tígnu ‘glorious’
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tíginn (adj./verb p.p.): noble
kennings
in tígnu tíðmǫrk himins‘the glorious time-markers of heaven ’
= HEAVENLY BODIES
the glorious time-markers of heaven → HEAVENLY BODIES
tíðmǫrk ‘time-markers’
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tíðmark (noun n.): [time-markers]
kennings
in tígnu tíðmǫrk himins‘the glorious time-markers of heaven ’
= HEAVENLY BODIES
the glorious time-markers of heaven → HEAVENLY BODIES
himins ‘of heaven’
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himinn (noun m.; °himins, dat. himni; himnar): heaven, sky
kennings
in tígnu tíðmǫrk himins‘the glorious time-markers of heaven ’
= HEAVENLY BODIES
the glorious time-markers of heaven → HEAVENLY BODIES
ljósi ‘light’
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ljós (noun n.; °ljóss; -): light
sínu ‘their’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
frá ‘away from’
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frá (prep.): from
lýð ‘the nation’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
snúa ‘turn’
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snúa (verb): turn
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Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 159.287-8; cf. Wright 1988, 114, prophecy 72): Ab eis uultus auertent sydera et solitum cursum confundent ‘The planets will look away from men and disrupt their customary paths’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 158).
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