GunnLeif Merl I 8VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 76 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 53.
Kalla ‘summoned’
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kalla (verb): call
lét ‘had’
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láta (verb): let, have sth done
fylkir ‘The king’
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fylkir (noun m.): leader
fróða ‘wise’
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fróðr (adj.; °compar. -ari, superl. -astr): wise
frá ‘inquired’
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1. fregna (verb): hear of
gunnþorinn ‘the battle-bold’
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gunnþorinn (adj.): battle-brave
gramr ‘lord’
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1. gramr (noun m.): ruler
hvat ‘what’
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hvat (pron.): what
olli ‘was the cause’
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valda (verb): cause
es ‘when’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
gǫrla ‘’
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gǫrla (adv.): quite, fully
hvarf ‘completely’
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1. hverfa (verb): turn, disappear
grundvǫllr ‘foundation’
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grundvǫllr (noun m.): foundation
brott ‘vanished’
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1. brott (adv.): away
notes
[7] se*m grund ‘as if the earth’: Emended in Bret 1848-9 (followed by Skj B and Skald) from ms. seimgrund (refreshed).
notes
[7] se*m grund ‘as if the earth’: Emended in Bret 1848-9 (followed by Skj B and Skald) from ms. seimgrund (refreshed).
gǫmul ‘the ancient’
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gamall (adj.; °gamlan; compar. & superl. ellri adj.): old
gleypði ‘swallowed’
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gleypa (verb): swallow
steina ‘stones’
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steinn (noun m.; °steins; steinar): stone, colour
eða ‘or’
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eða (conj.): or
hamloðin ‘…’
harmin ‘’
seldi ‘’
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4. selja (verb): hand over, sell, give
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Cf. St. 7 for DGB. Also DGB 106 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 137.506-7): Cumque id Vortegirno nunciatum fuisset, consuluit iterum magos suos ut causam rei indicarent ‘When Vortigern was informed of this, he again consulted his magicians in order to find out what was causing it’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 136). — [9-10]: No satisfactory explanation of the obelised words has so far been proposed. They occur in a heavily refreshed passage in Hb. Scheving proposed eða hám glóða garmi seldi ‘or gave to the lofty wolf of embers [FIRE]’. This scarcely makes sense, in the apparent absence of an appropriate grammatical subject, and is rejected in Bret 1848-9, although the translation there retains the idea of fire. Skj B prints hamloðin | har … eldi and offers no translation. Kock (NN §1282) compares harmin, the apparent ms. reading, with ME harmin, ModSwed. hermelin ‘ermine’, but this word has no cognate in Old Norse and the motif as a whole has no counterpart in Geoffrey’s text (cf. Merl 2012).
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