GunnLeif Merl I 100VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 168 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 100)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 132.
Hirtisk ‘Let men’
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hirða (verb): hide, care for
hǫlðar ‘be chary’
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hǫlðr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): man
at ‘of’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
hæða ‘scorning’
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2. hæða (verb): to mock, scorn
bœkr ‘books’
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1. bók (noun f.; °bǿkr/bókar; bǿkr): book
nemi ‘let them learn’
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1. nema (verb): to take
skynsemi ‘wisdom’
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skynsemi (noun f.)
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
skili ‘understand’
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1. skilja (verb): separate, understand
gǫrla ‘fully’
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gǫrla (adv.): quite, fully
hvat ‘what’
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hvat (pron.): what
táknat ‘signified’
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tákna (verb)
mun ‘is’
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munu (verb): will, must
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
tǫlu ‘narration’
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tal (noun n.; °-s; *-): talk, speech; number
esat ‘has not’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
enn ‘yet’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
liðin ‘come to pass’
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1. líða (verb): move, glide
ǫll ‘the entire’
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allr (adj.): all
spásaga ‘prophecy’
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spásaga (noun f.)
þó ‘yet’
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þó (adv.): though
eru ‘are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
mǫrgum ‘to many’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
myrk ‘obscure’
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2. myrkr (adj.; °-an/-jan/-van; compar. -(v)ari/-ri, superl. -(v)astr): dark, murky
môl ‘the words’
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1. mál (noun n.; °-s; -): speech, matter
própheta ‘of the prophets’
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prófeti (noun m.; °-a; -ar): [prophets]
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