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№ 8 (2023)
Merlínusspá is included into the short version of Breta sǫgur which goes back to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) and is preserved in Hauksbók (AM 544 4to). The article argues that the main function of Merlínusspá is not only to narrate war and conflict but also to present British legends with the help of traditional Old Norse themes (feuds, the enmity of kinsmen, the death of all living things) and poetic means (Eddaic meter fornyrðislag, skaldic kviðuháttr, skaldic syntax with interwoven sentences and skaldic phraseology: kennings and heiti.