GunnLeif Merl I 13VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 81 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 13)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 57.
text and translation
‘Lát grund grafa, gera skorninga,’
sagði Merlínus menja deili.
‘Veitið vatni, ok vitið síðan,
hvat spát hafi spillir bauga,
— þat es nýlunda — niðr ór fjalli.’
‘Lát grafa grund, gera skorninga,’ sagði Merlínus {deili menja}. ‘Veitið vatni niðr ór fjalli ok vitið síðan, hvat {spillir bauga} hafi spát; þat es nýlunda.’
‘‘Have the earth dug, form channels,’ Merlin said to the sharer of neck-rings [GENEROUS MAN = Vortigern]. ‘Drain the lake down from the mountain and then find out what the despoiler of rings [GENEROUS MAN = Merlin] has prophesied; that is a novelty.’ ’
notes and context
Cf. DGB 108 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 141.573): Praecipe hauriri stagnum per riuulos ‘Order the pool to be drained through channels’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 140).
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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
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AM 544 4° (Hb) — 51r/10 - 51r/12
imagesLattv grvnd grafa gera skorninga sagði merlinvs | ménia deili veitið vatní ok vitið siþan hvat spað hafi spillir bavga þat er nylvnda | niðr or fialli ·
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