GunnLeif Merl II 38VIII/2 — gengr ‘will go’
‘En galti þat gengr at reyna;
blæss hann í andlit ok í augu gram.
En refr við þat ræðr á galta;
fær hann af hánum fót inn vinstra
hlust ina hœgri ok hryggjar nes.
‘En galti gengr at reyna þat; hann blæss í andlit ok í augu gram. En refr ræðr á galta við þat; hann fær inn vinstra fót af hánum, ina hœgri hlust ok nes hryggjar.
‘And the boar will go to test that; he will blow in the face and eyes of the ruler. But thereupon the fox will attack the boar; he will take from him the left foot, the right ear, and the headland of the back [TAIL].
readings
[2] gengr: ‘egiar’(?) apparently corrected from gengr during the process of refreshing Hb
notes
[2] gengr ‘will go’: The refreshed reading in Hb has previously been taken as ‘eggiar’ (Hb 1892-6, 275; read as eggjar by Bret 1848-9 and Merl 2012) or emended variously to girnisk (Skj B) and getr (NN §2163F; Skald). But as refreshed the ms. seems to read ‘egiar’, with minuscule <g> and a contraction mark running above the three letters ‘egi’, rather than ‘eggiar’. On this basis, emendation to (or more precisely restoration of) gengr is proposed in the present edn. The word gengr written with a mark of contraction above the second <g> is seen in the ms. text of II 25/8 and II 31/6. This solution is more economical than those of Skj B and Skald and gives good sense in context, corresponding to DGB’s adibit ‘will approach’, as contrasted with eggjar, which Bret 1848-9 is obliged to translate freely as önsker ‘wishes’, not otherwise an attested meaning of the verb (ONP: eggja ‘sharpen, urge on, goad, incite’); Merl 2012 presupposes an otherwise undocumented intransitive use of eggja.
grammar
Verbs: Strong Verbs
The stem of the subjunctive pl. is i-mutation of the indicative pl..
lúka ‘shut, end’
| Indicative | Subjunctive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present | Past | Present | Past | ||
| Active voice | |||||
| sing. | 1 2 3 | lýk lýkr lýkr | lauk laukt lauk | lúka lúkir lúki | lyka lykir lyki |
| pl. | 1 2 3 | lúkum lúkið lúka | lukum lukuð luku | lúkim lúkið lúki | lykim lykið lyki |
| infinitive pres. part. past part. | lúka lúkandi lúkinn, lúkin, lúkit | ||||
| Middle voice | |||||
| sing. | 1 2 3 | lýkumk lýksk lýksk | laukumk laukzk lauksk | lúkumk lúkisk lúkisk | lykumk lykisk lykisk |
| pl. | 1 2 3 | lúkumk lúkizk lúkask | lukumk lukuzk lukusk | lúkimk lúkizk lúkisk | lykimk lykizk lykisk |
| infinitive pres. part. past part. | lúkask lúkandisk lúkizk | ||||