GunnLeif Merl I 60VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 128 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 60)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 97.
text and translation
‘Verðr af slíku sverðéls hǫtuðr
himna ferðar hugþekkr grami.
Ok at þetta líf þingdjarfr konungr
taliðr es tyggja tungls með englum.
‘{Hǫtuðr {sverðéls}} verðr hugþekkr {grami {ferðar himna}} af slíku. Ok þingdjarfr konungr es taliðr at líf þetta með englum {tyggja tungls}.
‘‘The hater of the sword-storm [BATTLE > HOLY MAN] will be dear to the lord of the host of the heavens [ANGELS > = God] because of such [deeds]. And the king bold in encounters will be counted after this life with the angels of the lord of the moon [= God]. ’
notes and context
Cf. DGB 114 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 149.104-5; cf. Wright 1988, 105, prophecy 17): Promerebitur inde fauorem Tonantis et inter beatos collocabitur ‘For this he will earn the favour of the Thunderer and be numbered among the blessed’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 148).
readings
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.
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AM 544 4° (Hb) — 52r/14 - 52r/15
images‘Verðr af slíku
sverðéls hǫtuðr
himna ferðar
hugþekkr grami.
Ok at þetta líf
þingdjarfr konungr
taliðr es †tigia†
tungls með englum.Uerðr af slikv sverðels havtvðr himna ferðar hvgþeckr grame ok at þetta | lif þingdiarfr konvngr taliðr er tigia tvngls með englvm
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