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.
Hylja ‘will cover’
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2. hylja (verb): to bury, cover, inhume
þeir ‘They’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
alla ‘the entire’
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allr (adj.): all
ey ‘island’
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1. ey (noun f.; °-jar, dat. -ju/-; -jar): island
með ‘with’
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með (prep.): with
laufi ‘foliage’
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lauf (noun n.; °-s; -): leaf
unz ‘until’
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2. unz (conj.): until
annarr ‘one’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
þar ‘there’
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þar (adv.): there
ǫðrum ‘the other’
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1. annarr (pron.; °f. ǫnnur, n. annat; pl. aðrir): (an)other, second
bœgir ‘subdues’
ok ‘and’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
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[5] ok eyðir ‘and destroys’: Normalised in Skald from ms. ok hann eyðir ‘and he destroys’ for metrical reasons. Hann is retained by Bret 1848-9, Skj B and Merl 2012.
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eyðir ‘destroys’
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2. eyða (verb; °-dd-): destroy
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[5] ok eyðir ‘and destroys’: Normalised in Skald from ms. ok hann eyðir ‘and he destroys’ for metrical reasons. Hann is retained by Bret 1848-9, Skj B and Merl 2012.
hans ‘its’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
ǫllu ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
laufi ‘foliage’
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lauf (noun n.; °-s; -): leaf
tekr ‘will commence’
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2. taka (verb): take
hann ‘it’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
þrjú ‘the three’
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þrír (num. cardinal): three
rúm ‘places’
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rúm (noun n.; °-s; -): place
þrekstórr ‘very vigorous’
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þrekstórr (adj.)
hafa ‘to have’
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hafa (verb): have
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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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