GunnLeif Merl I 18VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 86 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 18)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 60.
text and translation
Þeir víg gera vatns farveg í,
ok lengi hvatt linnar berjask.
Mega ormar þar ýmsir meira
ok ýmsir þar undan leggja.
Þeir gera víg í farveg vatns, ok linnar berjask lengi hvatt. Ýmsir ormar mega þar meira ok ýmsir leggja þar undan.
‘They wage battle in the lake’s outlet and the snakes fight each other fiercely for a long time. Now one snake, now the other has the advantage there; now one, now the other takes refuge there. ’
notes and context
Cf. DGB 111 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 145.30-1): Ipsis ergo in hunc modum pugnantibus ‘As they fought in this way’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 144).
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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/18 - 51r/19
imagesÞeir víg gera
vatns farveg í,
ok lengi hvatt
linnar berjask.
Mega ormar þar
ýmsir meira
ok ýmsir þeir
undan leggja.Þeir vig gera vazfarveg í ok lengi hvat linnar beriaz mega ormar þar ymser | meira ok ymser þeir vndan · leɢia
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