GunnLeif Merl I 4VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 72 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 50.
Es ‘is’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
áttbogi ‘The lineage’
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áttbogi (noun m.; °-a): [offspring]
enskrar ‘of the English’
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enskr (adj.): English
þjóðar ‘people’
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þjóð (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -/-u; -ir): people
saxneskr ‘to be Saxon’
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saxneskr (adj.)
sagaðr ‘said’
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segja (verb): say, tell
notes
[3] sagaðr ‘said’: This is a by-form of the usual p. p. sagðr (LP: segja).
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
sǫgum ‘stories’
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1. saga (noun f.; °*-u; *-ur): story, saga
fornum ‘ancient’
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forn (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): ancient, old
Þaðan ‘From there’
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þaðan (adv.): from there
eflðusk ‘they strengthened’
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efla (verb; °-fld-/-að-(RómvUpph¹ 382²⁴)): strengthen
þeir ‘themselves’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
til ‘for’
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til (prep.): to
þrimu ‘the clash’
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þrima (noun f.): battle, din
kennings
þrimu geira‘the clash of spears ’
= BATTLE
the clash of spears → BATTLE
geira ‘of spears’
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geirr (noun m.): spear
kennings
þrimu geira‘the clash of spears ’
= BATTLE
the clash of spears → BATTLE
landi ‘of the land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
ræna ‘deprive’
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ræna (verb): rob
lofðung ‘the king’
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lofðungr (noun m.; °; -ar): king, leader
Breta ‘of the Britons’
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Breti (noun m.; °; -ar): Briton
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For Gunnlaugr’s source here, cf. Merl I 2 Note to [All].
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