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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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GunnLeif Merl I 13VIII/3 — sagði ‘said’

‘Lát grund grafa,         gera skorninga,’
sagði Merlínus         menja deili.
‘Veitið vatni,         ok vitið síðan,
hvat spát hafi         spillir bauga,
— þat es nýlunda —         niðr ór fjalli.’

‘Lát grafa grund, gera skorninga,’ sagði Merlínus deili menja. ‘Veitið vatni niðr ór fjalli ok vitið síðan, hvat spillir bauga hafi spát; þat es nýlunda.’

‘Have the earth dug, form channels,’ Merlin said to the sharer of neck-rings [GENEROUS MAN = Vortigern]. ‘Drain the lake down from the mountain and then find out what the despoiler of rings [GENEROUS MAN = Merlin] has prophesied; that is a novelty.’

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