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GunnLeif Merl I 88VIII

Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 156 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 88)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 122.

Gunnlaugr LeifssonMerlínusspá I
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text and translation

‘Ok á hans dǫgum         harðla brenna
ófs rammligar         eikr ór skógum.
Enn á lítlum         lindar kvistum
vex ǫrliga         akarn í lundi.

‘Ok á dǫgum hans brenna ófs rammligar eikr ór skógum harðla. Enn vex akarn ǫrliga á lítlum kvistum lindar í lundi.
 
‘‘And in his days exceedingly mighty oaks from the forests will burn fiercely. Once more an acorn will grow rapidly on the slender twigs of the lime-tree in the grove.

notes and context

Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.140-1; cf. Wright 1988, 107, prophecy 30): In diebus illis ardebunt quercus per nemora et in ramis tiliarum nascentur glandes ‘In those days oak trees will burn in the forests and acorns will grow on the branches of lindens’ (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 88: AII, 34, BII, 42, Skald II, 26; Bret 1848-9, II, 69-70 (Bret st. 156); Hb 1892-6, 282; Merl 2012, 197.

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