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 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.
Mss: Hb(52v) (Bret)
Editions: Skj AII, 34, Skj BII, 41, Skald II, 26; Bret 1848-9, II, 68-9 (Bret st. 153); Hb 1892-6, 282; Merl 2012, 195.
Notes: [All]: 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). — [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.
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- Hb 1892-6 = Finnur Jónsson, ed. 1892-6. Hauksbók udgiven efter de Arnamagnæanske håndskrifter no. 371, 544 og 675, 4° samt forskellige papirshåndskrifter. Copenhagen: Det kongelige nordiske oldskrift-selskab.
- Bret 1848-9 = Jón Sigurðsson. 1848-9. ‘Trójumanna saga ok Breta sögur, efter Hauksbók, med dansk Oversættelse’. ÅNOH 1848, 3-215; 1849, 3-145.
- Reeve, Michael D., and Neil Wright. 2007. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum [Historia regum Britanniae]. Woodbridge: Boydell.
- Wright, Neil, ed. 1988. The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. II. The First Variant Version: A Critical Edition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.
- Merl 2012 = Horst, Simone, ed. 2012. Merlínússpá. Merlins Prophezeiung. Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Unattributed, Breta saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 38. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=125> (accessed 27 April 2024)
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