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4826 AThompson
alysseann Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
5:40 pm
Góðan daginn Within this passage, I can’t figure out the form “settak.” Is it middle voice? In which case I think I would have expected “settumk”....
4827 xeon_ies Send Email Feb 1, 2005
5:40 pm
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,...
4828 Patricia
originalpatr... Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
7:00 pm
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...
4829 Stephen Fryer
hunmanby2001 Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
7:03 pm
... 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 ...
4830 Patricia
originalpatr... Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
8:42 pm
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...
4831 Sarah Bowen
skbowen191102 Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
10:05 pm
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...
4832 xeon_ies Send Email Feb 2, 2005
5:01 pm
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...
4833 Michael Murphy
omurc2002 Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
5:05 pm
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...
4834 Patricia
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Feb 2, 2005
5:47 pm
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...
4835 Patricia
originalpatr... Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
7:04 pm
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...
4836 llama_nom Send Email Feb 3, 2005
3:43 pm
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...
4837 llama_nom Send Email Feb 3, 2005
4:04 pm
... True in some cases...e.g. skkva, rru, where the /e/ goes back to Proto Norse, and gra < *garwjan--where the /e/ was the i-umlaut of /a/. But...
4838 Sarah Bowen
skbowen191102 Send Email
Feb 3, 2005
7:22 pm
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...
4839 Sarah Bowen
skbowen191102 Send Email
Feb 3, 2005
7:36 pm
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...
4840 Sarah Bowen
skbowen191102 Send Email
Feb 3, 2005
7:47 pm
Auðun gets some recognition and it´s time to move on "En þér, Auðun, kann ek slíka þökk sem þú gefir mér alt dýrit; ok ver hér með mér!" Þat...
4841 Haukur orgeirsson
fjornir Send Email
Feb 3, 2005
7:57 pm
... I think you're right. The suffix can be used redundantly with the pronoun appearing as well. Kveja, Haukur...
4842 llama_nom Send Email Feb 4, 2005
7:14 pm
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...
4843 absnt_mnd_prof Send Email Feb 5, 2005
12:41 am
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...
4844 llama_nom Send Email Feb 6, 2005
9:49 pm
Could anyone clarify this sentence for me: "Fru eir t skip, en at v hugi n, hvar hann skyldi ess koma sr, at llum tti sr mest...
4845 Patricia
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Feb 8, 2005
4:00 pm
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...
4846 Fred and Grace Hatton
hattonf Send Email
Feb 8, 2005
4:06 pm
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:...
4847 Patricia
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Feb 8, 2005
4:07 pm
Auun Part Eleven "En r, Auun, kann ek slka kk sem gefir mr alt drit; But thou, Auun can I thank as you have brought the whole bear ...
4848 Patricia
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Feb 8, 2005
4:07 pm
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 ...
4849 Michael Murphy
omurc2002 Send Email
Feb 8, 2005
4:07 pm
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...
4850 AThompson
alysseann Send Email
Feb 8, 2005
4:08 pm
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...
4851 akoddsson
konrad_oddsson Send Email
Feb 8, 2005
4:08 pm
Heill Llama. ... Right. Essentially, if the (sometimes called 2) resulting from both i- AND u-umlaut of a was pronounced differently than the resulting...
4852 Laurel Bradshaw
llawryf Send Email
Feb 8, 2005
5:13 pm
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...
4853 Patricia
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Feb 8, 2005
5:14 pm
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...
4854 Fernando Guerrero
fernandur2000 Send Email
Feb 8, 2005
10:44 pm
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...
4855 Haukur orgeirsson
fjornir Send Email
Feb 9, 2005
2:18 am
... 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...
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