... to act) 'sé' is the 3rd person subjunctive singular of 'vera' "to be" here, rather than the 1st person indicative singular of 'sjá'. It's being used as...
... "a gift from the earl" (refering to the spear). 'jarlsnaut' is in apposition to 'spjót', like 'konungr' in 'Haraldr konungr'. Weapons are often called...
Sorry about this! Njal's speeches are hard enough without me confusing things... 'koma orði á' is glossed in the ÍF edition as 'orða, nefna' "to mention"....
Thanks a heap LN I have made print-offs of the others the notes that you
have sent and I can study them - sometimes the Grammar get's in my way - and
time and...
... letters. Well that's Icelandic Google Groups (flokkar). I tested it with 'ollu því' and 'öllu því' and it didn't come up with much either way. Here ...
Excellent! Thanks for that. I saw them ages ago too, but it's nice to meet them again. And an Old Norse Toon has had the YouTube treatment too I see. A few...
Yeah, but with all the verbs conveniently heaped at the end of the sentences in German, one can make a guess at least that you're dealing with a verb! Was fuer...
Here´s my translation. Thanks LN for all comments on tle last passage. We´ve had the discussion about er being either causal (that) or temporal (when)...
... Slayer-Hrapp and Grani Gunnar's-son Yes, "they stood on either side of him", "one on each side". Incidentally, I don't know if this word-order rule holds...
hi, i'm new around here but i'm very enthusiastic with learning old norse. so, can you give some tips that may help my learning? i'd apreciate any kind of...
... That's right, and you all probably know this anyway, but just in case: 'ferð' is the Modern Icelandic equivalent of the 2nd person sg. indicative present...
Alan wrote: Synir Njáls ræddu (roeða) nú um við Kára Njál's sons now talked about (it) with Kári I thought it was some mutant form of ráda - - clearly...
I foresee a lot of work in this one - I have some of it done - but have had
to stop for All Afternoon in the Hospital - not myself - I was with a friend -...
i just made a PDF version of "Zoëga Old Icelandic Dict." you can download it here : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=159DO2IW and good luck with your stidies ^^ ...
N thomsen
nbs1883@...
Mar 5, 2008 12:29 am
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hoo hum, you know, sometimes learning another relevant, awesome old germanic language can be a good starter! have you thought about first learning old english?...
... Hi Jay, The Norse Course lessons are a great place to start especially if you're new to learning languages, and you don't need to know lots of linguistics...
maybe i'll do like you said: learn old english. now that i think about it, it may be a good starter!!! thanks for the advice!!! and thank you, N thomsen, for...
thanks for your help. i was already think of going through the "old norse for beginners" site lessons. now that you recomended it, i'll go through them for...
no problem! what things exactly are you pursuing in doing Old Norse (or Old Germanic in general?) purely linguistic interest, or to read the literature? and is...
i want to learn old norse for linguistic interest and so that i can read the legends and myths. as for my language background: my primary language is a latin...
... 'þá hver að hendi' "then each in turn" (i.e. all the rest of them standing in a row there). ... Well done. Apart from that, it looked good to me. Nice...
agrada'vel para encontrar-se com o! have you already read any of the saga literature / myths in English (or Portuguese)? it sounds like the types of grammar...
... It's 'þjóðann' in Old Norse [ http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/png/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0739.png ]. ... similar to Old Norse. True, although, personally I find...
my bad with the typos! (which is a critical issue when dealing with language!). i wrote the replies quickly (and obviously didnt use a character set)....
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