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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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GunnLeif Merl I 6VIII

Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 74 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 52.

Gunnlaugr LeifssonMerlínusspá I
567

text and translation

En hertogi         hœlis leitar;
gerisk traustan turn         tyggi at smíða.
Ok þangat til         þeirar gerðar
samnar mǫrgum         mildingr smiðum.

En hertogi leitar hœlis; tyggi gerisk at smíða traustan turn. Ok mildingr samnar mǫrgum smiðum þangat til þeirar gerðar.
 
‘But the duke searches for a stronghold; the lord sets about building a trusty tower. And the king assembles many craftsmen there for that work.

notes and context

This and the following stanza derive from the following in DGB 106 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 137.499-503): Vocatis denique magis suis, consuluit illos iussitque dicere quid faceret. Qui dixerunt ut aedificaret sibi turrim fortissimam quae sibi tutamen foret, cum ceteras munitiones amisisset … Venit tandem ad montem Erir, ubi coadunatis ex diuersis patriis caementariis iussit turrim construere ‘Finally he summoned and consulted his magicians, commanding them to tell him what to do. They said that he should build a very strong tower as a refuge, since he had lost his other fortresses … he came at last to Mount Snowdon, where he gathered stonemasons from various regions and ordered them to build the tower’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 136).

sources

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.

editions and texts

Skj: Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínússpá II 6: AII, 22, BII, 25, Skald II, 16; Bret 1848-9, II, 40 (Bret st. 74); Hb 1892-6, 277; Merl 2012, 132-3.

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