GunnLeif Merl I 43VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 111 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 43)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 79.
Vera ‘be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
notes
[1] mun* ‘will’: Emended in this edn from Hb munu. Also emended to mun in Skj B (followed by Skald), but perhaps tentatively, since the translation in Skj B (albeit rather loose) presupposes retention of a pl. verb to match the pl. subject ‘snakes’: vil der være stor strid mellem ormene ‘there will be great strife between the snakes’. Kock does not comment on the matter. Bret 1848-9 had retained munu with a similar translation and it is retained without comment in Hb 1892-6. Merl 2012 would also retain, noting that belti ‘belt’, as a n. noun, could be either sg. or pl. But a pl. in l. 1 followed by sg. hann in l. 8 would be odd and the evidence of DGB speaks against it.
ára ‘decades’
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2. ár (noun n.; °-s; -): year, year’s abundance
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
aga ‘strife’
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agi (noun m.; °-a): [seas, turmoil]
miklum ‘great’
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mikill (adj.; °mikinn): great, large
fimtán ‘for’
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fimmtán (num. cardinal): fifteen
tigi ‘fifteen’
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tigr (noun m.; °-ar/-s(DN II (1309) 80¹², etc.); -ir, acc. -u): a ten of, a decade; a ten of, a decade
foldar ‘of the earth’
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fold (noun f.): land
kennings
‘Belti foldar‘‘The belt of the earth ’
= SNAKE
‘The belt of the earth → SNAKE
belti ‘The belt’
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belti (noun n.; °-s; -): belt
kennings
‘Belti foldar‘‘The belt of the earth ’
= SNAKE
‘The belt of the earth → SNAKE
En ‘But’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
tírœð ‘counted decimally’
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tírœðr (adj.): [counted in tens]
notes
[5] tírœð ‘counted decimally’: In contradistinction to the ‘long hundred’ = 120. Cf. SnSt Ht 100/3III and Note.
tíri ‘with glory’
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tírr (noun m.; °-s): glory, honour
gǫfgaðr ‘endued’
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gǫfga (verb): endow, worship
hundruð ‘hundred years’
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hundrað (noun n.; °-s; hundruð/-): hundred
þrjú ‘for three’
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þrír (num. cardinal): three
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
sitja ‘reign’
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sitja (verb): sit
Lundúnum ‘London’
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Lundúnir (noun f.): [London]
at ‘in’
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4. at (conj.): that
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
lýða ‘of people’
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lýðr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir): one of the people
fjǫlð ‘a multitude’
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fjǫlð (noun f.): multitude
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Cf. DGB 113 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 147.66-7; cf. Wright 1988, 103, prophecy 7): centum namque quinquaginta annis in inquietudine et subiectione manebit, ter centum uero insidebit ‘for a hundred and fifty years it will endure harassment and submission, but for three hundred it will be in occupation’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 146). Gunnlaugr adds the idea of a multitude of people living under the sway of the white snake.
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