I would like to know what the pronounciation of old Norse would have been in Iceland around the year 1000 (theoretically) I would appreciate it if someone...
... Thanks, and of course! : D ... From: Lee Bailey To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [norse_course]...
I had trouble towards the end of this section sorting out what was being said. Grace Hann tók öxina og var reiður mjög og tekur hest er Gunnar átti og...
Saell Grace I have just sent mine in and from what I have seen - you have made a better job than have I with those longer sentences. Kvedja Patricia...
Here´s my translation. I would appreciate any comments on my efforts, particularly any underlined text. I hope my translation is of some use to others. ...
I think this got lost - another letter I sent after this came in just now if this proves to be surplus you can scrap one of them - they are equal (bad) Kvedja ...
... I photocopied and scanned the entry under "slóði" from the reference book "Mergur málsins" which has just come out in a revised edition. It is a...
... That's the correct literal translation, but the sense of it is "that he doesn't cut any more" or "that he doesn't cut again" (after this time). at vitja...
Thanks LN for correcting me here and apologies to others if I have mislead. It was late at night but I don´t know what I was thinking likening it the land –...
I was wondering if anyone knows the word for badger (the animal, not the verb). I am thinking that it would be close to the modern word "Grevling" in...
... Hi, There's a Modern Icelandic word 'greifingi' (pl. 'greifinjar') "badger". It's not in the big Cleasby-Vigfússon dictionary of Old Icelandic, but goes...
Thank you! That helps a lot. I had found the M.Icelandic word just after I had sent my question. I am glad that I was on the right track. Thank you very...
Hi Patricia. Yeah maybe something happened to the message. Thanks for the info. Do you know where I could obtain this New Introduction to Old Norse book? ...
I got mine from Amazon UK - I say often that - half in earnest and half in Jest - they are good servants of mine and I am also led to believe that Gazelle...
... Thanks, for the other examples, LN. Patricia, I think I made a bigger mess of this last one than you did by a long shot! Grace Fred and Grace Hatton Hawley...
Heill I am just wondering about a couple definitions here for the word "solitude". I know I've asked about this before, however, I would simply like to know...
Hi lamma_nom. Many thanks for your insight and all of the links! Bless, Lance ... Alt i én. Få Yahoo! Mail med adressekartotek, kalender og notisblokk. Hi...
...or if you want to order direct: http://asu.edu/clas/acmrs/publications/mrts/vsnr.html http://www.viking-society.group.shef.ac.uk/publications.htm ... half...
... "solitude". I know I've asked about this before, however, I would simply like to know the meanings of the words listed (I have Sigurður Örn Bogason's...
... gives-hope to me that (it will) go well for you but still you will be much tested (sorely tried) In each of these examples, isn't the sense of the...
strangely Grace but I was "chawing my nails " over this one - that is a charming thing to say - I made a couple of logical guesses or something. Thanks a lot...
Thanks LN. Thinking aloud, given the way language evolves and words and expressions can accumulate, new meaning and nuances, I wonder if Zoega (10) isn’t ...
The film is out on DVD and on rental in the U. S. Netflix has it. I won't say anything about it except for to say the setting is amazing. It was filmed in...
... spoken ... þreyttur." ... be ... ferr ... acts ... under 'fara' (10). My sense for the language (which may be wrong, of course) tells me that the meaning...
I could see a definite difference in meaning but did not express it well, I actually thought Hallgerd was saying something like "do not make me look a fool for...
Thanks Eysteinn, and my apologies to Alan! I'll keep an eye out for more examples of this idiom. Looking again at how MM & HP actually translate the second...
... It's a very "open" kind of idiom, very dependent upon context of course, but here I suspect he would be saying something like "I expect you will do well",...
Do you mean Beowulf, the film with Christophe Lambert ? The one I'm telling about is pretty bad... If there's a better one, action or any other style, I'd be...
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