GunnLeif Merl I 67VIII
Russell Poole (ed.) 2017, ‘Breta saga 135 (Gunnlaugr Leifsson, Merlínusspá I 67)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 104.
‘Hittisk targa ok inn togni hjǫrr,
hjalmr ok hneitir, hlíf ok ǫrvar,
brynja in brezka ok brandr roðinn,
manns môttug hǫnd ok meðalkafli,
hvítmýlingar ok hǫlða brjóst.
‘Targa ok inn togni hjǫrr hittisk, hjalmr ok hneitir, hlíf ok ǫrvar, in brezka brynja ok roðinn brandr, môttug hǫnd manns ok meðalkafli, hvítmýlingar ok brjóst hǫlða.
‘Shield and the drawn sword meet, helmet and sword, shield and arrows, the British mail-shirt and red-stained sword, a man’s strong hand and a sword-grip, white-muzzled arrows and the breasts of men.
Mss: Hb(52r) (Bret)
Editions: Skj AII, 31, Skj BII, 37, Skald II, 23-4; Bret 1848-9, II, 62 (Bret st. 135); Hb 1892-6, 281; Merl 2012, 180.
Notes: [1] hittisk ‘meet’: This verb applies to all the double subjects of the stanza. — [3] hneitir ‘sword’: Lit. ‘cutter, striker’. Cf. Þul Sverða 2/7III. As a proper noun, Hneitir was the name of S. Óláfr’s sword; see ESk Geisl 43/1VII and Note to [All]. — [8] meðalkafli ‘a sword-grip’: Or ‘sword-hilt’. Strictly that part of the sword handle between the two hilt-plates; cf. Þul Sverða 12/6III. — [9] hvítmýlingar ‘white-muzzled arrows’: Cf. Gísl Magnkv 13/7II and Þul Ǫrvar 1/2III.
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)
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 12’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 812.
- Elena Gurevich (ed.) 2017, ‘Anonymous Þulur, Sverða heiti 2’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 791.
- Martin Chase (ed.) 2007, ‘Einarr Skúlason, Geisli 43’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 42-3.
- Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Gísl Illugason, Erfikvæði about Magnús berfœttr 13’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 425-6.
- Elena Gurevich 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Ǫrvar heiti’ in Kari Ellen Gade and Edith Marold (eds), Poetry from Treatises on Poetics. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 3. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 818. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=3198> (accessed 23 April 2024)
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