GunnLeif Merl I 91VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 159 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 91)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 124.
Verðr ‘will come to pass’
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1. verða (verb): become, be
tuttugu ‘of twenty’
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tuttugu (num. cardinal): twenty
tjón ‘The loss’
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2. tjón (noun n.; °-s; -): loss
þúsunda ‘thousand’
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1. þúsund (noun f.; °; -ir): thousand
ljóna ‘of men’
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ljónar (noun m.): men
ferðar ‘of the host’
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ferð (noun f.; °-ar; -ir/-arMork 196¹²)): host, journey
Lundúnum ‘London’
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Lundúnir (noun f.): [London]
í ‘in’
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í (prep.): in, into
munu ‘will’
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munu (verb): will, must
drengir ‘men’
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drengr (noun m.; °-s, dat. -; -ir, gen. -ja): man, warrior
drepnir ‘be slain’
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drepa (verb; °drepr; drap, drápu; drepinn): kill, strike
allir ‘all’
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allr (adj.): all
gerir ‘will turn’
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1. gera (verb): do, make
karla ‘of men’
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karl (noun m.; °-s, dat. -i; -ar): (old) man
tjón ‘the loss’
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2. tjón (noun n.; °-s; -): loss
Tems ‘the Thames’
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Tems (noun f.)
at ‘to’
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3. at (prep.): at, to
blóði ‘blood’
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blóð (noun n.; °-s): blood
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The stanza divisions for I 91, 92, and 93, as printed in this edn, following Bret 1848-9 and Skj B, are uncertain. Hb has a capital <V> with red colouring at I 91/1, a small <m> with no colouring at I 92/1, a capital <E> with red at I 91/5 and a small <h> without colouring at I 93/1. It might be that Gunnlaugr had only two stanzas here, each of 12 lines, but I 92/5-8 would be awkward to sever from the previous helmingr and similar stanza division errors have been detected elsewhere in the ms. (see Notes to I 34/9-10 and I 35/7-10). Cf. DGB 116 (Reeve and Wright 2007, 151.144-5; cf. Wright 1988, 107, prophecy 30): Lundonia necem uiginti miliorum lugebit, et Tamensis in sanguinem mutabitur ‘London will grieve for the demise of twenty thousand, and the Thames will turn to blood’ (Reeve and Wright 2007, 150).
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