Happy New Year to all!!! Grace "Ekki munt þú bæta híbýli vor," segir Gunnar, "svo er mér frá þér sagt. En ekki mun eg "You will not improve our home,"...
All the best for this coming year - to everyone - in this Group "Ekki munt þú bæta híbýli vor," segir Gunnar, "svo er mér frá þér sagt. En ekki mun eg...
Hi all and happy New Year! ... 'sæst' = ON 'sæzt', pp. of sættask. ... þínu húsi, ... Infinitive marker, I think. I guess this one of the reasons why...
... lífi að drepa Atla." ... `if he were alive to kill Atli.' I see you all translated the idiom word for word, but I guess you remember what it means from...
I think we were all sticking to the more literal form - when is it
permissible to be a trifle colloquial and to translate more into our English
Idiom. frankly...
Hael Everyone Grace has given me the source url for the Saga and I believe she may be delayed or off line for a while and I have been asked to post some -...
Ouch - I did louse up - I am so sorry - I thought today we were back to two a week, I went back to check and I see I was much mistaken LN, - Grace - I wonder...
... menn er Atli var. Patricia: Gunnar became (was made) angry and declared that full payment had been made for lesser men than Atli. Grace: Gunnar became...
Seems there was a scarcity of good staff in those days. You may have noticed that Hallgerð and Bergþóra were having a major impact on the job-market! And...
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/78291.html I felt that this might be of sad interest to the People of Norse Course We have all I believe - reason to be...
... þín en nú eru eftir mín heit." I see that Zoega have 'heit', neuter sg. "promise"; pl. "threats". Likewise Cleasby/Vigfússon, where this example is...
... The link was blank when I looked, but there's an oblituary at the BBC site [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3561915.stm ], and others, I'm sure. The...
Splendid LN - the one which was sent to me was very slow to load indeed and I think your link was the better of the two anyway Kveðja Patricia ... From:...
Amazing man! I only knew of him from the many, many translations and the foreword for the book on the Vikings I gave as presents this past Christmas. I had...
... framan hendur honum Brynjólfi I don't think it's necessary to assume a missing word here. It didn't strike me as odd; the verb 'hjó' is presumably just...
39. kafli Þórður hét maður. Hann var kallaður leysingjason. Thord was a man's name - he was called "The Freedman's son" (There is a distinction between...
The question of "Old Norse Murder Mysteries" I find rather droll - written
no doubt by Agata Christensdottir Ten Little Indians would come out as Ten
Little...
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