GunnLeif Merl I 22VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 90 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 22)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 62.
Es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
harmr ‘sorrow’
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1. harmr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): sorrow, grief
mikill ‘A great’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
hǫlðum ‘to men’
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hǫlðr (noun m.; °-s; -ar): man
at ‘to’
[2] at segja: segja Hb
notes
[2] at segja ‘to be told’: The prep. at is supplied in this edn to clarify the syntax. The inf. segja is passive in function though active in form.
segja ‘be told’
[2] at segja: segja Hb
notes
[2] at segja ‘to be told’: The prep. at is supplied in this edn to clarify the syntax. The inf. segja is passive in function though active in form.
segik ‘I say’
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segja (verb): say, tell
sigr ‘the victory’
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sigr (noun m.; °sigrs/sigrar, dat. sigri; sigrar): victory
hafa ‘has’
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hafa (verb): have
snák ‘snake’
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snákr (noun m.): snake
inn ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
hvíta ‘white’
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hvítr (adj.; °-an; -ari, -astr): white
Láð ‘The land’
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2. láð (noun n.): earth, land
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
leggjask ‘be subjugated’
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leggja (verb): put, lay
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
lýða ‘the multitude’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
fjǫlð ‘of people’
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fjǫlð (noun f.): multitude
munu ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
dreyrgar ‘blood-stained’
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dreyrugr (adj.; °dreyrgan/dreyrugan; superl. dreyrgastr): bloody
ór ‘from’
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3. ór (prep.): out of
dǫlum ‘the valleys’
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dalr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -/-i; -ir, acc. -i/-a): valley
falla ‘fall’
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falla (verb): fall
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Cf. DGB 112 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 145.34, 36-7; cf. Wright 1988, 102, prophecy 1): Vae rubeo draconi; nam exterminatio eius festinat … Montes itaque eius ut ualles aequabuntur, et flumina uallium sanguine manabunt ‘Alas for the red dragon, its end is near … Its mountains will be levelled with the valleys, and the rivers in the valleys will flow with blood’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 144). Gunnlaugr’s handling of Montes … aequabuntur is consistent with his tendency to rationalise the allegory.
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