Bjarni tók við Flosa báðum höndum. Flosi bauð Bjarna fé til liðveislu. Bjarni mælti: "Aldrei hefi eg selt karlmennsku mína við fémútu eða ...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Apr 2, 2009 5:23 pm
There were several places where I couldn't figure out the meanings. Grace Bjarni tók við Flosa báðum höndum. Flosi bauð Bjarna fé til liðveislu. Bjarni...
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Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Apr 2, 2009 8:57 pm
At 1:21:03 PM on Thursday, April 2, 2009, Fred and Grace ... [...] ... <Snýrðu> is <snýr>, 2nd person singular present indicative of <snúa>, + <þú> 'you'...
Thanks for your help! I wondered about Bersi, but stuck with Bersa as that is what M & P had. Grace Fred and Grace Hatton Hawley Pa...
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llama_nom
Apr 3, 2009 9:52 pm
... Because it's 1st person. 'sér' is a 3rd person pronoun, and only the 3rd person has distinct reflexive forms. In the 1st and 2nd persons, the regular...
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AThompson
alysseann
Apr 3, 2009 10:21 pm
Thanks LN. Sorry, I had a bit of a brain fade there. It was the end of a long week and I was confusing ON grammar with Russian, which I am also learning and...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Apr 6, 2009 12:26 pm
135. kafli Nú er þar til máls að taka að Kári Sölmundarson og Þórhallur Ásgrímsson riðu einhvern dag til Mosfells að finna Gissur hvíta. Hann...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Apr 6, 2009 4:43 pm
I had the usual problems with the verse. Grace 135. kafli Nú er þar til máls að taka að Kári Sölmundarson og Þórhallur Ásgrímsson riðu einhvern Now...
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AThompson
alysseann
Apr 7, 2009 11:11 am
Here´s my translation. A curse on the verse – impossible. 135. kafli Chapter 135 Nú er þar til máls að taka að Kári Sölmundarson og Þórhallur...
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Patti (Wilson)
originalpatr...
Apr 7, 2009 11:34 am
I respectfully offer a translation carefully copied from the CSOI where-in
it was translated by Robert Cook Then this verse came from Kari's mouth A whetter...
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Brian M. Scott
bmscotttg
Apr 7, 2009 7:13 pm
... Gleymdi þú vísa korti þínu? <g> It's been *long* time since I tried one of these bloody things, but this one seems to have fairly normal syntax, at...
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Patti (Wilson)
originalpatr...
Apr 7, 2009 7:37 pm
THat's very good - it is almost like the copy I sent forward sometime this
morning , which I had copied up from the Complete Sagas of the Icelanders - one...
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Schuyler Himberg
himbergs
Apr 8, 2009 12:42 am
Lately I have been interested in studying the runic alphabet Futhark; therefore I am. Only now have I come across the problem that the runic letters (I guess...
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wyrdplace@...
thedric2000
Apr 8, 2009 1:25 am
At the time when the runes were in common usage, there was no standardized spelling for Norse words. The words were spelled phonetically, according to what the...
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Michael
oydman
Apr 8, 2009 1:53 am
I've noticed that there is no "W" or "V" in many versions of the runes either... I'm not entirely sure how the word VÃkingr would be spelled in the Younger...
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llama_nom
Apr 8, 2009 1:53 am
The accute accents used in modern editions of Old Norse texts and grammars indicate vowel length, not stress (although it happens that unstressed vowels were...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Apr 8, 2009 11:14 am
Sometimes the U character was used. The double U is our word for the letter W in English. Grace Fred and Grace Hatton Hawley Pa...
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Patti (Wilson)
originalpatr...
Apr 8, 2009 11:21 am
Spot on Grace - I am getting my emails sorted out - hoping to be back with
the group and occasionally translating - and "Chipping in my two pence" in Englisn...
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AThompson
alysseann
Apr 8, 2009 11:38 am
Hi Patricia Your post with the CSOI Translation was received by me (thank you) so, everything seems to be working from this end. Cheers Alan ... From:...
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AThompson
alysseann
Apr 8, 2009 11:47 am
Many thanks Brian – a great help. Neither card nor patience, I’m afraid. Cheers Alan ... From: norse_course@yahoogroups.com...
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Patti (Wilson)
originalpatr...
Apr 8, 2009 12:00 pm
Thank you Alan - so it was well received - good - we have been having quite a bit of trouble with emails one way and another but it's all a part of life's...
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Sabin Densmore
sgecko75
Apr 8, 2009 1:18 pm
Depending on your source material (I'm reading this from Rune-net and Edred Thorsson), the character "Wunjo" is used for "W" depending on context. "Uruz" would...
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llama_nom
Apr 8, 2009 7:48 pm
... In the Younger Futhark, the úr-rune was used where normalised Old Norse texts have 'v'. The word 'víkingr' occurs in various spellings: UIKIK and UIKINK...
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bmscotttg
Apr 8, 2009 11:39 pm
... The word was also a masculine personal name, so various runic spellings can be found in the Runnamn Lexikon at <http://www.sofi.se/1765>: Nominative:...
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asvardhrafn@...
asvardhrafn
Apr 9, 2009 12:30 am
Germanic W's tend to be pronounced V or VW does that help its like v and w pronounced at the same time without tightening enough to say f Hope that helps ...
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bmscotttg
Apr 9, 2009 12:44 am
... The Proto-Germanic consonant that became Old Norse /v/ was probably pronounced like English /w/, and this pronunciation probably persisted into...
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Eyja Bassadottir
eyjabassadottir
Apr 9, 2009 12:50 am
... Another thing that makes it ambiguous is that scholars still debate on which way the runes were read/written. Depending on the orientation, you might get...
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asvardhrafn@...
asvardhrafn
Apr 9, 2009 1:17 am
I would disagree with the esteemed professor in that the futhark's well developed use as a magical symbol also incorporating names that use the sounds that he...
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Eyja Bassadottir
eyjabassadottir
Apr 9, 2009 1:19 am
... One thing that makes me agree with this is the 13th c. use of 'hv' in writing (well, at least in the standardized ON -- haven't seen the manuscripts to see...
