GunnLeif Merl I 1VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 69 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 48.
Nú ‘now’
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nú (adv.): now
skalk ‘I shall’
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skulu (verb): shall, should, must
flotnum ‘men’
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flotnar (noun m.): mariners
þats ‘what’
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þats (conj.): that, which
forðum ‘once’
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forðum (adv.): formerly, once
vas ‘was’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
hlýði ‘Listen’
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hljóða (verb): listen, sound
fróðir ‘wise’
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fróðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): wise
mér ‘to me’
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ek (pron.; °mín, dat. mér, acc. mik): I, me
fyrðar ‘men’
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2. fyrðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -): man
segja ‘tell’
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segja (verb): say, tell
at ‘that’
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4. at (conj.): that
buðlungr ‘a king’
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buðlungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, prince
sat ‘resided’
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sitja (verb): sit
Bretlandi ‘Britain’
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Bretland (noun n.)
at ‘in’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
hét ‘was called’
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2. heita (verb): be called, promise
vellskati ‘the generous man’
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vellskati (noun m.): generous chieftain
Vortígernus ‘Vortigern’
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Vortígernus (noun m.)
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Vortigern was remembered in tradition, not necessarily accurately, as the C5th British leader who authorised the first settlement of the Saxon invaders in eastern Britain (Hunter Blair 1963, 161-4; Bromwich 1978, 386-7). Geoffrey’s much elaborated account of his rise to power occurs in DGB VI.
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