GunnLeif Merl I 71VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 139 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 71)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 107.
Eyðisk ‘is expunged’
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2. eyða (verb; °-dd-): destroy
eyjar ‘of the island’
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1. ey (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-; -jar): island
it ‘The’
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2. inn (art.): the
enska ‘English’
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enskr (adj.): English
nafn ‘name’
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nafn (noun n.; °-s; *-): name
mun ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
Anglía ‘Anglia’
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Anglía (noun f.)
eigi ‘not’
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3. eigi (adv.): not
kǫlluð ‘be called’
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kalla (verb): call
Hlýtr ‘gets’
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hljóta (verb): alot, gain
at ‘to’
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5. at (nota): to (with infinitive)
halda ‘retain’
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halda (verb): hold, keep
heiti ‘name’
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heiti (noun n.): name, promise
inu ‘the’
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2. inn (art.): the
forna ‘old’
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forn (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): ancient, old
kend ‘is called’
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kenna (verb): know, teach
es ‘it’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
við ‘after’
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2. við (prep.): with, against
Brútum ‘Brutus’
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Brutus (noun m.)
Brítannía ‘Britain’
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Brittannía (noun f.)
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Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 149.114; cf. Wright 1988, 105, prophecy 20): Nomine Bruti uocabitur insula, et nuncupatio extraneorum peribit ‘The island will be called by Brutus’ name and the naming conferred on it by the foreigners will perish’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 148). — [7-8]: The idea is familiar, but Gunnlaugr may have taken it either from a commentary or perhaps directly from DGB I (21.459-60: Reeve and Wright 2007, 28‑9). He spells out more explicitly than Geoffrey that this represents a reversion to the ancient name.
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