Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 68 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 68)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 189.
Ok herþarfr hrindi gǫrla
gumna liðs grandi hverju,
svát til lífs leiði gǫrva
þjóðar vǫrðr þetta mengi.
Ok hrindi herþarfr gǫrla hverju grandi liðs gumna, svát {vǫrðr þjóðar} leiði gǫrva þetta mengi til lífs.
‘And may the one beneficent to his people utterly avert all harm to the host of men, so that the protector of the people [= God] may fully lead this multitude to life. ’
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Ok herþarfr hrindi gerla gvmna liðs gran | di hveriv sva at til lifs leiði gerfva þioðar vorðr þetta mengi
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