Hi! I'm Lilli. I'm a brand new member! I've joined this group today! I've studied old norse at the university of Rome La Sapienza two yrs ago. I totally felt...
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Dec 1, 2005 4:17 pm
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Lilli, you are most welcome, there is nothing wrong with your English, and we are certainly glad to have you here, I have looked into the study of Old English,...
Hi Patricia and thank you for the lovely answer! Well... old English is not so worse than norse! You can find differences in grammar (that is more difficult...
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Dec 1, 2005 5:48 pm
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Quote "Old Norse has the Syntax from Hell" how's that, !! but then I am a Heathen and I write Hel not Hell, I love the language and one thing I'm grateful to...
I am going to attempt to draw a Norsetoon, but I would like someone to check my grammar first: [Ragnar ok Oddr sigla í bátum. Þeir sjá hólm.] [Oddr spyrr,...
Hold onto your stomachs folks: I've been having a go at some stanzas of Krákumál [ http://www.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/skindex/krml.html ]. I've had help with some...
... someone to ... Looks alright to my not-perfectly-trained eye (if they're sailing in "boats"), except that the nominative in Old Icelandic is Ragnarr (as...
hjarna kleifar "cliffs of the brain" = head? "cliffs of the head" = shoulders? I just noticed Skáldskaparmál 69: "Höfuð heitir ókent: hauss, hjarni, ...",...
Ach! It appears a great many of my errors are simply to be attributed to typos! ... Yes, here I mean Ragnarr, instead of Ragnar. And I made the mistake of ...
It seems to start off so well and then as Þorkell's sentence gets longer his train of thought gets me derailed. ( sigh) But I do think I am learning and I...
... The more I see that sentence the more sinister it gets... ON Online has a bit on relatives, see 18.1 [ http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-4- ...
Hm, I'm still a bit confused. Apparently þat comes from sá, right? In Zoëga's dictionary it says this is neuter, what is neuter in the sentence? Possibly...
... What is Nommish? a quality unique to the Llammasery to which our LN belongs, a strange humility born of pride in achievment, and joy in helping others ...
Hi I have come up against that odd little letter am o with a squiggle - cannot do that one so I'll do an ö Right that's that settled In the Glossary of the...
... That's right. On its own, 'vöxtr' can mean "size" or "stature". It's related to the verb 'vaxa' "to grow" (compare English "to wax lyrical" and "waxing...
Thank you once again llama_nom. Your posts always contain such a wealth of information that I cannot digest it all in one reading :) This has made me realize a...
... in ... That´s the trick! Zoega´s dictionary actually has a "List of Irregular Forms" in the back which includes some regular forms too that might be...
According to CV, 'en' is used in place of 'er' or 'ef' "now and then in manuscripts, especially Norse (i.e. Norwegian), but this is a mere peculiarity or false...
... poets are speaking. I'm not sure how best to interpret this case. Similarly in Valagaldur Kráku, only two hawks are mentioned, but the plural is used....
... No idea. I guess that theoretically they could have had more sisters and then only two of them went forth and did X, Y and Z but that seems a somewhat...
Here's my favorite Old Norse Q&A: Hverr deyr? Hjarðar stýrir ; hví? Fyrir sauða lífi ; hvessu? Hekk á krossi ; hvar? Þar er Lazarús jarðask ; hvénær...
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