Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 140 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 72)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 108.
‘Mun villigǫltr vígdjarfr koma
ór kynstórri Kónánus ætt
sá vigra konr Vallandi á.
Høggr yngva sonr eikr ór skógi;
þó mun hilmir hollr smáviði.
‘Villigǫltr, sá konr vigra, mun koma vígdjarfr ór kynstórri ætt Kónánus á Vallandi. Sonr yngva høggr eikr ór skógi; þó mun hilmir hollr smáviði.
‘‘A wild boar, that scion of pigs, will issue, daring in combat, from the mighty lineage of Conan in France. The prince’s son hews down oaks from the forest; yet the ruler will be kindly to small trees. ’
Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 149.114-17; cf. Wright 1988, 105-6, prophecy 21): Ex Conano procedet aper bellicosus, qui infra Gallicana nemora acumen dentium suorum exercebit. Truncabit namque quaeque maiora robora, minoribus uero tutelam praestabit ‘From Conanus will come forth a warlike boar, who will exercise the sharpness of his tusks on the forests of France. He will cut short all the tallest trees, but give protection to the smaller’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 148). Geoffrey envisages the resurgent British monarchy gaining power in France. Gunnlaugr amplifies on the glory of the boar king’s lineage, probably with Arthur, the greatest of the boar kings, in mind: cf. I 24/4.
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‘Mun villigǫltr
vígdjarfr koma
ór kynstórri
†Kominus† ætt
sá †viga-† konr
Vallandi á.
Høggr yngva sonr
eikr ór skógi;
þó mun hilmir
hollr smáviði.
Man | villigolltr vigdiarfr koma or kynstorri kominvs ætt sa vigakonr vallandi a heɢr yngva | svn eikr or skogi þo mvn hilmir hollr smaviði
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