GunnLeif Merl I 84VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 152 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 84)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 120.
Kømr ‘will come’
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koma (verb; kem, kom/kvam, kominn): come
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
lœgi ‘the sea’
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lœgi (noun n.)
landnyrðingr ‘northeast wind’
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landnyrðingr (noun m.)
notes
[2] hvass landnyrðingr ‘a sharp northeast wind’: Exactly the same line occurs at Merl I 44/3. See Note there.
hvass ‘A sharp’
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hvass (adj.; °-an; -ari, -astr): keen, sharp
notes
[2] hvass landnyrðingr ‘a sharp northeast wind’: Exactly the same line occurs at Merl I 44/3. See Note there.
lýstr ‘with a malevolent’
hann ‘it ’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
illum ‘gust’
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illr (adj.): bad, evil, unwell
byl ‘will knock’
einn ‘one’
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1. einn (num. cardinal; °f. ein, n. eitt; pl. einir; superl. debil. -asti(Anna238(2001) 155³²)): one; alone
[4] einn: eik Hb
af ‘from’
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af (prep.): from
stofni ‘the trunk’
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stofn (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): pole, tree-stump
Þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
munu ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
kvistir ‘The branches’
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kvistr (noun m.; °dat. -i; -ir, acc. -i/-u): twig, branch
es ‘that’
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2. er (conj.): who, which, when
þruma ‘remain’
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3. þruma (verb): ? - used this one
eptir ‘afterwards’
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eptir (prep.): after, behind
rúm ‘space’
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rúm (noun n.; °-s; -): place
taka ‘take up’
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2. taka (verb): take
sék ‘I see’
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2. sjá (verb): see
gǫrla ‘clearly’
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gǫrla (adv.): quite, fully
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Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.134-5; cf. Wright 1988, 106-7, prophecies 27 and 28): Huic aduersarius Boreas superueniet atque iniquo flatu suo tercium illi ramum eripiet. Duo uero residui locum extirpati occupabunt ‘The North wind will come as its enemy and with its cruel blast will rip off the third branch. The remaining two will take the place of the one that has been removed’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 150). Here Geoffrey re-uses his earlier prophecy of Viking raids in England, not altogether incongruously since sporadic raiding from Scandinavia continued through his life-time. Raids carried out in England and Scotland by Eysteinn Haraldsson of Norway in the 1150s are alluded to in ESk RunII and ESk EystdrII; for historical commentary see A. B. Taylor (1965) and references there. — [8]: A free addition on Gunnlaugr’s part, emulating vernacular prophetic poems such as Vsp and Gríp. Cf. I 89/4 and 6.
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