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 mun* ára í aga miklum
fimtán tigi foldar belti.
En tírœð tíri gǫfgaðr
hundruð þrjú hann mun sitja
Lundúnum at ok lýða fjǫlð.
‘{Belti foldar} mun* vera í miklum aga fimtán tigi ára. En hann mun sitja at Lundúnum þrjú hundruð tírœð gǫfgaðr tíri, ok fjǫlð lýða.
‘‘The belt of the earth [SNAKE] will be in great strife for fifteen decades. But for three hundred years, counted decimally, he will reign in London, endued with glory, and a multitude of people [with him]. ’
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.
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
‘Vera munu ára
í aga miklum
fimtán tigi
foldar belti.
En tírœð
tíri gǫfgaðr
hundruð þrjú
hann mun sitja
Lundúnum at
ok lýða fjǫlð.
Uera mvnv ara i aga myklvm ·xv· tigi folldar bellti | en tirꝍð tiri gavfgaðr hvndrvð ·íí· hann man sitia lvndvnvm at ok lyda fiolþ
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