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 áttbogi enskrar þjóðar
saxneskr sagaðr í sǫgum fornum.
Þaðan eflðusk þeir til þrimu geira
landi at ræna lofðung Breta.
Áttbogi enskrar þjóðar es sagaðr saxneskr í fornum sǫgum. Þaðan eflðusk þeir til {þrimu geira} at ræna lofðung Breta landi.
The lineage of the English people is said in ancient stories to be Saxon. From there they strengthened themselves for {the clash of spears} [BATTLE] to deprive the king of the Britons of the land.
Mss: Hb(50v) (Bret)
Editions: Skj AII, 22, Skj BII, 24-5, Skald II, 15, NN §3258; Bret 1848-9, II, 40 (Bret st. 72); Hb 1892-6, 277; Merl 2012, 131-2.
Notes: [All]: For Gunnlaugr’s source here, cf. Merl I 2 Note to [All]. — [3] sagaðr ‘said’: This is a by-form of the usual p. p. sagðr (LP: segja). — [5] þaðan ‘from there’: With the implicit notion of the continental homeland of the Saxons. Kock argues for a sense ‘thereafter’ (NN §3258A, followed by Merl 2012), and this is definitely possible (cf. Heggstad et al. 2008: 4. þaðan).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- LP = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1931. Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis: Ordbog over det norsk-islandske skjaldesprog oprindelig forfattet af Sveinbjörn Egilsson. 2nd edn. Copenhagen: Møller.
- Hb 1892-6 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1892-6. Hauksbók udgiven efter de Arnamagnæanske håndskrifter no. 371, 544 og 675, 4° samt forskellige papirshåndskrifter. Copenhagen: Det kongelige nordiske oldskrift-selskab.
- Bret 1848-9 = Jón Sigurðsson. 1848-9. ‘Trójumanna saga ok Breta sögur, efter Hauksbók, med dansk Oversættelse’. ÅNOH 1848, 3-215; 1849, 3-145.
- Merl 2012 = Horst, Simone, ed. 2012. Merlínússpá. Merlins Prophezeiung. Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Unattributed, Breta saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 38. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=125> (accessed 27 April 2024)
- Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 70 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 2)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 49.
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