GunnLeif Merl II 32VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 32 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 32)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 163.
‘Halda þeir sunnan of svalan ægi
Bretlands á vit; búask til rómu.
En refr hinig með rekka lið
ferr fráliga fold at verja.
‘Þeir halda sunnan of svalan ægi á vit Bretlands; búask til rómu. En refr ferr fráliga hinig at verja fold með lið rekka.
‘They will hold their course from the south across the cold sea towards Wales; they will prepare for battle. But the fox will go there swiftly to defend the land with a band of men.
Mss: Hb(50r) (Bret)
Editions: Skj AII, 16, Skj BII, 16-17, Skald II, 10; Bret 1848-9, II, 27 (Bret st. 32); Hb 1892-6, 274; Merl 2012, 96.
Notes: [All]: See Note to II 31 [All]. — [3] á vit Bretlands ‘towards Wales’: Although Bretland otherwise refers to the whole of Britain, in this case it is likely to refer specifically to Wales, as the army is said to be coming from the south across the sea.
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.
- 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 25 April 2024)
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