GunnLeif Merl I 3VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 71 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 3)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 50.
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Ok láð þeira með liði miklu
sjǫlf eignaðisk í sǫgum fornum.
Ok, þars kristnir kœnir byggja,
áðr tók heiðin þjóð hallir smíða.
Ok í fornum sǫgum eignaðisk sjǫlf láð þeira með miklu liði. Ok, þars kœnir kristnir byggja, tók heiðin þjóð áðr smíða hallir.
‘And according to the ancient stories, they themselves took possession of their land with a great army. And where wise Christians settle, heathen people had previously taken to constructing halls. ’
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AM 544 4° (Hb) — 50v/30 - 50v/31
imagesOk láð þeira
með liði miklu
sjǫlf eignaðisk
í sǫgum fornum.
Ok, þars kristnir
†kiænir† byggja,
áðr tók heiðin þjóð
hallir smíða.Ok lað þeira með liði miklv sialf eignaðiz isogvm fornvm ok þar er kristnir kiænir by | gia aðr tok heiðin þioð hallir smiða
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