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 Bádónis borgar verða
— líðr mart yfir — laugar kaldar.
Ok hennar vǫtn heilnæm firum
gera þá dauða drjúgt mannkyni.
‘Laugar borgar Bádónis munu verða kaldar; mart líðr yfir. Ok vǫtn hennar, heilnæm firum, gera þá dauða drjúgt mannkyni.
‘The baths of the city of Bath will become cold: many a thing will come to pass. And her waters, beneficial to men, will then cause deaths relentlessly for mankind.
Mss: Hb(52v) (Bret)
Editions: Skj AII, 34, Skj BII, 42, Skald II, 26-7; Bret 1848-9, II, 70 (Bret st. 158); Hb 1892-6, 282; Merl 2012, 198-9.
Notes: [All]: ]: 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). — [1] Bádónis ‘of Bath’: A gen. of definition, retaining the Latin inflection: cf. II 63/2. — [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).
References
- Bibliography
- Skald = Kock, Ernst Albin, ed. 1946-50. Den norsk-isländska skaldediktningen. 2 vols. Lund: Gleerup.
- ONP = Degnbol, Helle et al., eds. 1989-. A Dictionary of Old Norse Prose / Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog. 1-. Copenhagen: The Arnamagnæan Commission.
- 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.
- Reeve, Michael D., and Neil Wright. 2007. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The History of the Kings of Britain. An Edition and Translation of De gestis Britonum [Historia regum Britanniae]. Woodbridge: Boydell.
- Wright, Neil, ed. 1988. The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. II. The First Variant Version: A Critical Edition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.
- 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 19 April 2024)
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