GunnLeif Merl I 90VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 158 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 90)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 124.
Munu ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
Bádónis ‘of Bath’
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Badon (noun ?): Bath
notes
[1] Bádónis ‘of Bath’: A gen. of definition, retaining the Latin inflection: cf. II 63/2.
borgar ‘of the city’
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borg (noun f.; °-ar, dat. -; -ir): city, stronghold
verða ‘become’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
líðr ‘will come’
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1. líða (verb): move, glide
mart ‘many a thing’
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2. margr (adj.; °-an): many
yfir ‘to pass’
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yfir (prep.): over
laugar ‘The baths’
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laug (noun f.; °-ar; dat. -u/-; -ar): bath, hot spring
kaldar ‘cold’
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kaldr (adj.; °compar. -ari): cold
Ok ‘And’
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3. ok (conj.): and, but; also
hennar ‘her’
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hann (pron.; °gen. hans, dat. honum; f. hon, gen. hennar, acc. hana): he, she, it, they, them...
vǫtn ‘waters’
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vatn (noun n.; °-s; -*): water, lake
heilnæm ‘beneficial’
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heilnæmr (adj.)
notes
[6] heilnæm ‘beneficial’: Attestations of this adj., along with its derivatives of identical meaning, heilnæmiligr and heilnæmligr, are almost entirely confined to late texts containing learned material (ONP: heilnæmr, heilnæmiligr, heilnæmligr).
firum ‘to men’
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firar (noun m.): men
gera ‘cause’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
þá ‘will then’
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2. þá (adv.): then
dauða ‘deaths’
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2. dauðr (adj.): dead
drjúgt ‘relentlessly’
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drjúgr (adj.; °compar. -ari (drýgari [$1033$] ms. 56v, superl. -astr): very, excessive
mannkyni ‘for mankind’
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mannkyn (noun n.): mankind
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]: Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.143-4; cf. Wright 1988, 107, prophecy 30): Frigebunt Badonis balnea, et salubres aquae eorum mortem generabunt ‘The springs of Bath will run cold and their healing waters will bring death’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 150).
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