GunnLeif Merl I 48VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 116 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 48)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 84.
Þá ‘Then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
gjalda ‘pay’
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1. gjalda (verb): pay, repay
grimmra ‘for his savage’
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grimmr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): fierce
ráða ‘actions’
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ráð (noun n.; °-s; -): advice, plan, control, power
es ‘will be’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
hans ‘his’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
tíundat ‘decimated’
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tíunda (verb)
tálaukit ‘treacherous’
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tálaukinn (adj./verb p.p.)
kyn ‘kindred’
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1. kyn (noun n.; °-s; -): kin
Verðr ‘will have to’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
hann ‘He’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
grœna ‘the green’
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2. grœnn (adj.; °superl. grǿnastr/grǿnstr): green
grund ‘earth’
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grund (noun f.): earth, land
[6] grund at vinna: grund at vinna HbJS, ‘[…]nna’ Hb
at ‘’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
[6] grund at vinna: grund at vinna HbJS, ‘[…]nna’ Hb
vinna ‘work’
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2. vinna (verb): perform, work
[6] grund at vinna: grund at vinna HbJS, ‘[…]nna’ Hb
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
notes
[7] hann ‘he’: Omitted in Skald.
upp ‘onwards’
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upp (adv.): up
frá ‘from’
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frá (prep.): from
því ‘that time’
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því (adv.): therefore, because
aldri ‘no more’
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aldri (adv.): never
ríkir ‘will reign’
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ríkja (verb): rule
Tekr ‘will incur’
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2. taka (verb): take
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
svá ‘Thus’
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svá (adv.): so, thus
fyr ‘for’
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fyr (prep.): for, over, because of, etc.
svik ‘his treachery’
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1. svik (noun n.; °-s; -): deceit, treachery; poison
sárar ‘grievous’
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sárr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): sore, painful; wounded
hefnðir ‘retributions’
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hefnd (noun f.; °-ar; -ir): revenge
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Cf. DGB 113 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 147.75-6; cf. Wright 1988, 103, prophecy 9): et reliquiae generationis eius decimabuntur. Iugum perpetuae seruitutis ferent matremque suam ligonibus et aratris uulnerabunt ‘And the remnants of its generation will be decimated. They will bear the yoke of unending slavery and wound their mother with hoes and ploughs’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 146). Under the Conqueror’s rule the leading English landowners, both secular and ecclesiastical, were supplanted by Normans (Stenton 1971, 680-1). This subjugation of the English was a key element in what Curley (1982, 219) terms ‘the supposed progressive unfolding of the spes Britannorum’ (‘hope of the Britons’). Gunnlaugr tones down the maternal imagery and the notion of slavery but plays up the treachery of the white snake, i.e. the Saxon occupiers of Britain. — [6]: See Introduction for readings no longer visible in Hb that could be read by earlier eds.
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