Thanks a lot for your help, Llama! I must think of some way to "beautify"; these names as they seem kind of awkward to the average reader, though. By the way,...
Xeon Saell, Yews are trees usually found in Cemeteries here in England, but I know not why, and their branches were once used to make Bows for Arrows, the...
... A Yew is a type of coniferous tree, and a dale is a valley. There may be some symbolic reference in the yew - or it may just be a tree. -- Stephen Fryer ...
Xeon Saell - Excuse me but the name Dugvandil is not quite right if you are referring to Egil's sword which Arinbjorn the Hersir gave him, I quoted Dragvandil...
Hello you two! Thanks for your translations. I will post up feedback on Thurs evening. Cheers, Sarah. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG...
Hi Hunmanby and Patricia! Thanks for giving me those precious feedback! :-) ... A Yew is a type of coniferous tree, and a dale is a valley. There may be some...
Hi, Patricia, For what it's worth, the explanation why cemeteries were chosen as places to grow yew-trees is as follows. The wood of the yew is particularly...
Saell Michael - what a splendid reply, I shall not be going down to the Cemetery, I shall be taking your words for it - so to say. A Hazel Branch was the usual...
As I understand it Sael/Saell is a greeting like Hail Hael Heil (not so often used), and it is a sort of Hello, but the Guys get two "L's women get one "go...
Hello all, As well as the example Patricia gave, Hazel posts are used in Egils saga to mark out the boundaries of the area where the judges sit at the...
Hello Alan, This passage doesn't appear to have posed you many problems :-) Good question about "settak". I remember reading in Gordon that the -ak suffix can...
Hello Grace, and well done yet again! You seem to have found this quite straightforward. Only one little thing... Ok s at Haraldr konungr at And such (a...
And in Vluspa' the gods make the first man and woman out of two trees, respectively Askr "ash" and Embla "?"--often interpreted as some sort of derivative...
Hi all, I was wondering if you could give me the norse phrase and pronunciation for "little brother." I am a big Eaters of the Dead/13th Warrior fan and would...
Saell LN I was puzzled over ess koma sr, but I think he is definitely wondering where to sit, Zoga is very specific with the hvar = where - in what place...
I found this section to be much harder - - lots of idioms, I guess - and had to resort to my English translation to sort out what was being said. Subject:...
If this is a repeat, please delete it, I am re-sending simply because O/E had to close and I did not think it would reach you, you cannot trust Microspliff ...
Many thanks for the information. I must read up more on the subject. Interesting that the hazel seems to have special significance for both cultures: Celtic...
Góðan daginn Thank you Sarah and Haukur for explanation on settak. Sarah, I found the section in Gordon regarding the suffixing of ek to verbs. In Grammar...
Heill Llama. ... Right. Essentially, if the (sometimes called 2) resulting from both i- AND u-umlaut of a was pronounced differently than the resulting...
I have a bit more free time now that one of my temp. jobs has ended. At least until something else comes along! I hope I'll be able to get caught up a bit in...
Saell Xeon, Llama, Please will you note the possibility of my having made an error, in offering Dragvandil - Slicer as Egil's sword because in a copy of the...
Saell Patricia, Xeon ok Llama, As for Draupnr, it is very curious to find it as a sword name, as it is the name of the ring which Odinn put in Balder's funeral...
... I think 'sk' only occurs in the oldest manuscripts. Later on the ending is often spelled 'z'. The 14th century ms. Flateyjarbk contains, among many other...
