GunnLeif Merl I 83VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 151 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 83)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 119.
Upp ‘up’
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upp (adv.): up
renn ‘will shoot’
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2. renna (verb): run (strong)
síðan ‘then’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
sék ‘see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
fyrir ‘I fore’
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fyrir (prep.): for, before, because of
traust ‘A sturdy’
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traustr (adj.): trusty
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
turni ‘the tower’
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turn (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i/-; -ar): tower
tré ‘tree’
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tré (noun n.; °-s; tré/trjó, gen. trjá, dat. trjóm/trjám): tree
Lundúna ‘of London’
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Lundúnir (noun f.): [London]
þrír ‘three’
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þrír (num. cardinal): three
eru ‘There are’
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2. vera (verb): be, is, was, were, are, am
kvistir ‘branches’
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kvistr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ir, acc. -i/-u): twig, branch
lundi ‘tree’
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1. lundr (noun m.; °-ar, dat. -i/-; -ar): grove, tree
á ‘on’
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3. á (prep.): on, at
en ‘and’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
laufi ‘foliage’
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lauf (noun n.; °-s; -): leaf
þekr ‘shelters’
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3. þekja (verb): thatch, cover
land ‘the land’
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land (noun n.; °-s; *-): land
með ‘with its’
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með (prep.): with
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[8] með hringum ‘completely’: A common idiom (CVC: hringr). Comparable is II 13/8.
hringum ‘completely’
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1. hringr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ar): ring; sword
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[8] með hringum ‘completely’: A common idiom (CVC: hringr). Comparable is II 13/8.
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Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.131-3; cf. Wright 1988, 106, prophecy 27): Exin super turrim Lundoniarum procreabitur arbor, quae tribus solummodo ramis contenta superficiem tocius insulae latitudine foliorum obumbrabit ‘Then a tree will sprout above the tower of London, whose three branches in themselves will shade the surface of the entire island with the breadth of their foliage’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 150).
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