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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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GunnLeif Merl I 85VIII

Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 153 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 85)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 120.

Gunnlaugr LeifssonMerlínusspá I
848586

text and translation

‘Hylja þeir alla         ey með laufi,
unz annarr þar         ǫðrum bœgir
ok eyðir hans         ǫllu laufi;
tekr hann þrjú rúm         þrekstórr hafa.

‘Þeir hylja alla ey með laufi, unz annarr bœgir ǫðrum þar ok eyðir ǫllu laufi hans; þrekstórr tekr hann hafa þrjú rúm.
 
‘‘They will cover the entire island with foliage until one [branch] subdues the other there and destroys all its foliage; very vigorous it will commence to have the three places.

notes and context

Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.135-7; cf. Wright 1988, 107, prophecy 28): donec alter alterum foliorum multitudine adnichilabit. Deinde uero locum duorum optinebit ipse ‘until one chokes the other with its abundant foliage. Then it will occupy the place of the first two’ (cf. Reeve and Wright 2007, 150).

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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.

editions and texts

Skj: Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínússpá II 85: AII, 34, BII, 41, Skald II, 26; Bret 1848-9, II, 68-9 (Bret st. 153); Hb 1892-6, 282; Merl 2012, 195.

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