Þeir koma af hafi og leggja utan við Agðanes. Þá spyr Kolbeinn Hrapp: "Hvar er fé það er þú bauðst í leigu undir þig?" "Það er út á Íslandi,"...
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AThompson
alysseann
Jan 18, 2008 10:07 am
Þeir koma af hafi og leggja utan við Agðanes. Þá spyr Kolbeinn Hrapp: "Hvar They come from (the) sea and put-in from abroad at Agðanes. Then Kolbein asks...
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Patricia
originalpatr...
Jan 18, 2008 3:19 pm
Þeir koma af hafi og leggja utan við Agðanes. Þá spyr Kolbeinn Hrapp: "Hvar er fé það er þú bauðst í leigu undir þig?" They come from the sea and...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Jan 18, 2008 11:06 pm
I have questions about several places in the text this time. Grace Þeir koma af hafi og leggja utan við Agðanes. Þá spyr Kolbeinn Hrapp: "Hvar er fé...
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llama_nom
Jan 19, 2008 10:16 am
Heill Konráð! Fascinating stuff! This is area spoken of in Old Icelandic sources generally as 'austrvegr' "east-way";. There's a curious, and possibly early,...
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llama_nom
Jan 19, 2008 12:10 pm
... allir Austmenn munu illa túlka fyrir þér en þó ræð eg þér það annað heilræði að þú svík aldrei lánardrottinn þinn." This is reminiscent...
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llama_nom
Jan 19, 2008 12:33 pm
... Yes: 'utan' from abroad (conventionally with respect to Norway, even when talking about people who's home is Iceland) = 'utan af Íslandi' from Iceland. ...
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llama_nom
Jan 19, 2008 1:10 pm
... See my comment to Alan about 'utan'. ... so to take you"] In some contexts 'hljóta' can express what "must be", but here I think it's more: "You will get...
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llama_nom
Jan 19, 2008 1:21 pm
... (from the) other at Hlade. The idiom 'annað mest' (ON 'annat mest') means "second bigest": 'mest' (superlative of 'mikill'), rather than the 'best' = ON...
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Patti (Wilson)
originalpatr...
Jan 19, 2008 1:30 pm
Thanks a lot LN this is to be printed off - glad to have it - I shall want
to work through my translation I should think it better to print off the other...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Jan 19, 2008 4:00 pm
I see I messed up utan also. Grace ... (from the) other at Hlade. The idiom 'annað mest' (ON 'annat mest') means "second bigest": 'mest' (superlative of...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Jan 21, 2008 9:05 pm
Og þar kom að hann slóst á tal við Guðrúnu dóttur Guðbrands svo að það töluðu menn að hann mundi fífla hana. En er Guðbrandur varð þess var...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Jan 22, 2008 11:49 am
Og þar kom að hann slóst á tal við Guðrúnu dóttur Guðbrands svo að það töluðu menn að And it came about that he entered into conversation with...
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AThompson
alysseann
Jan 22, 2008 12:49 pm
A very enjoyable passage. Thanks LN for comments on last section. Kveðja Alan Og þar kom að hann slóst (slást) á tal við Guðrúnu dóttur Guðbrands...
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Patricia
originalpatr...
Jan 22, 2008 2:03 pm
This ends up - purest Hollywood - as near to Farce as they can get - we seem to do it better Og þar kom að hann slóst á tal við Guðrúnu dóttur...
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llama_nom
Jan 22, 2008 6:22 pm
... Yes, great stuff! ... allir menn. ... bade her to take-care-not-to (Z2) speak anything with him so (in such a way) that all men heard not (ie in private). ...
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llama_nom
Jan 22, 2008 6:26 pm
... að ganga með henni hvert er hún færi. ... where ever she might go (? subj.?) That's right: past subjunctive 3rd person singular of 'fara'....
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akoddsson
konrad_oddsson
Jan 23, 2008 7:50 pm
Heill Llama! ... generally as 'austrvegr' "east-way";. There's a curious, and possibly early, saga which deals entirely with late Viking Age adventures in the...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Jan 24, 2008 4:39 pm
"Alllítt lætur þú mig njóta mágsemdar," segir Hrappur, "en eigi hefir þú það mannval að þetta muni skjótlega gera." Þeir stóðu upp en hann...
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Fred and Grace Hatton
fredgrace
Jan 25, 2008 11:26 am
I couldn't even figure out what part of speech these words were - - fengju færi - - and continue to have troubles with hljóta. Grace "Alllítt lætur þú...
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AThompson
alysseann
Jan 25, 2008 1:00 pm
"AlllÃtt lætur þú mig njóta mágsemdar," segir Hrappur, "en eigi hefir þú það ’Rather-little you allow me to enjoy (my) son-in-law-hood,’ says...
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Patricia Wilson
originalpatr...
Jan 25, 2008 1:46 pm
I am still working on this - will most likely be late - sorry - saw Grace's
note on fengu færi and thought færi was the subjunctive of fara - but was
not...
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llama_nom
Jan 25, 2008 3:05 pm
... "but it never happened that they got a chance to attack him" 'fengju' is the Modern Icelandic past subjunctive 3rd person plural of 'fá' "to get". Before...
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Patricia
originalpatr...
Jan 25, 2008 3:22 pm
"Alllítt lætur þú mig njóta mágsemdar," segir Hrappur, "en eigi hefir þú það mannval að þetta muni skjótlega gera." Very little do you let me...
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llama_nom
Jan 25, 2008 3:26 pm
... 'We proceed strangely between ourselves concerning the (our) speeches,' (we´re not really saying what´s on our minds?) I don't remember meeting this...
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llama_nom
Jan 25, 2008 3:37 pm
... That's the idea: "he backed out (of the hall) and (ran) away". ... Yes, a year. 'öll þau misseri' "all (i.e. both) those half-years" = "all that year"....
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llama_nom
Jan 25, 2008 4:37 pm
... which I ... Yes, the H redaction is attested earlier, but shares a lot of changes in style and story with the U version. R is usually considered closest...
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llama_nom
Jan 25, 2008 4:37 pm
... which I ... Yes, the H redaction is attested earlier, but shares a lot of changes in style and story with the U version. R is usually considered closest...
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llama_nom
Jan 25, 2008 5:09 pm
... Quite so! ... Or about their Gothic comrades... ... of them, ... He wouldn't have been the first Norse king of England to cultivate poetry (see Matthew...
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LM
lavransrm
Jan 25, 2008 8:39 pm
Hey! Well, I think "liar" is a little harsh. That would mean that someone is deliberately and knowingly trying to mislead you. More often, it seems to a case...
