GunnLeif Merl II 33VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 33 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá II 33)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 164.
‘Hríð gerisk hjalma, hlífar klofna;
eru rammliga randir kníðar.
Gnesta geirar, es guðr vakin;
verðr víða lið at vallroði.
‘{Hríð hjalma} gerisk, hlífar klofna; randir eru kníðar rammliga. Geirar gnesta, guðr es vakin, lið verðr víða at vallroði.
‘{The storm of helmets} [BATTLE] arises, shields are split; the shields are battered powerfully. Spears clatter, battle is awakened; far and wide the army is made to redden the battlefield.
Mss: Hb(50r) (Bret)
Editions: Skj AII, 16, Skj BII, 17, Skald II, 10; Bret 1848-9, II, 27 (Bret st. 33); Hb 1892-6, 274; Merl 2012, 96-7.
Notes: [All]: See Note to II 31 [All]. — [7-8] lið verðr víða at vallroði ‘far and wide the army is made to redden the battlefield’: Lit. ‘the army far and wide is made into a field-reddening’. The cpd vallroð ‘field-reddening’, meaning ‘slaughter’, is a hap. leg.
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 23 April 2024)
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