GunnLeif Merl I 86VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 154 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 86)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 121.
Ok ‘And’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hann ‘it’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
síðan ‘then’
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síðan (adv.): later, then
þekr ‘will cover’
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3. þekja (verb): thatch, cover
þykku ‘with its dense’
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2. þykkr (adj.): thick
laufi ‘foliage’
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lauf (noun n.; °-s; -): leaf
einn ‘alone’
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1. einn (num. cardinal; °f. ein, n. eitt; pl. einir; superl. debil. -asti(Anna238(2001) 155³²)): one; alone
of ‘’
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3. of (prep.): around, from; too
alla ‘the entire’
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allr (adj.): all
eybarms ‘of the island’s fringe’
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eybarmr (noun m.)
notes
[4] eybarms ‘of the island’s fringe’: The ms. reading (not refreshed) has been taken as eykarms by earlier eds, but the letter read as k could be either <b> or <k>. Cf. barmi eylands ‘fringe of the island’ in I 40/6-7. The cpd eybarmr ‘the island-edge’ appears in Angantýr Lv 3/4 (Heiðr 32). Bret 1848-9 adopts eybarms as an emendation. This is also contemplated by Finnur Jónsson (LP: eybarmr) but not adopted in Skj B, where eykarmr is retained and translated as hele strandbreddens kyst ‘the whole shore of the beach’ (cf. LP: eykarmr). But such a sense is inappropriate to the context and the supposed underlying kenning pattern is weakly attested (Meissner 92; contrast LP: eylúðr). Skald and Merl 2012 retain eykarms without comment.
fjǫru ‘foreshore’
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1. fjara (noun f.): shore, foreshore
Megut ‘be unable’
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mega (verb): may, might
þá ‘then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
fljúga ‘to fly’
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fljúga (verb): fly
foglar ‘The birds’
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fugl (noun m.): bird
í ‘within the’
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í (prep.): in, into
landi ‘land’
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landi (noun m.; °-a; -ar): °(ngns) landsmand; (om islænding)
þvíat ‘because’
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þvíat (conj.): because
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
œgir ‘will frighten’
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œgja (verb): terrify
þeim ‘them’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
en ‘but’
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2. en (conj.): but, and
hann ‘he’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
enn ‘yet’
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2. enn (adv.): still, yet, again
til ‘to’
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til (prep.): to
sín ‘himself’
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3. sinn (pron.; °f. sín, n. sitt): (refl. poss. pron.)
laðar ‘will quickly’
fogla ‘birds’
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fugl (noun m.): bird
fljótt ‘a host’
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2. fljótr (adj.): quick
ferð ‘entice’
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fara (verb; ferr, fór, fóru, farinn): go, travel
útlendra ‘of foreign’
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útlendr (adj.)
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Cf. DGB 115 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.137-9; cf. Wright 1988, 107, prophecy 28): et uolucres exterarum regionum sustentabit. Patriis uolatilibus nociuus habebitur; nam timore umbrae eius liberos uolatus amittent ‘and feed birds from foreign lands. It will prove harmful to native birds; for they will not be able to fly freely in fear of its shadow’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 150).
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