GunnLeif Merl I 82VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 150 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 82)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 118.
text and translation
‘Falla ór orða almærri vǫk
dynjandi ár dróttar stýris.
Þær munu dǫggva dýrar jarðir
geðs í glæstum gollorheimi
ok þurrar kverkr þjóðar margrar.
‘Dynjandi ár falla ór {almærri vǫk orða} {stýris dróttar}. Þær munu dǫggva {dýrar jarðir geðs} í {glæstum gollorheimi} ok þurrar kverkr margrar þjóðar.
‘‘Resounding rivers will fall from the much-famed gap of words [MOUTH] of the ruler of the entourage [PRINCE]. They will spread dew on the beloved lands of the mind [HEARTS] in the splendid home of the pericardium [BREAST] and on the dry throats of many a people. ’
notes and context
Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.130-1; cf. Wright 1988, 106, prophecy 26): Ex ore ipsius procedent flumina, quae arentes hominum fauces rigabunt ‘Out of his mouth will issue rivers to moisten the parched throats of men’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 150). Geoffrey continues his prophecies regarding the ‘boar of commerce’. The source material for sts 81 and 82 is somewhat amplified in Merl, evidently so as to explicate the allegory.
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) — 52v/9 - 52v/11
imagesFalla or orða | almæʀi vok dyniandi ár drottar styris þær mvnv doggva dyrar iarðir geðs i gl | æstvm gollor heime ok þvrrar kverkr þioðar margrar
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