I am working on the lessons from hi.is. In lesson 2, part of the exercise is to translate: Óláfr á bát. Hann heitir Ormr. I am thinking that it is supposed...
... That's right. ... In Old Norse, as in many modern European languages, all nouns including inanimate objects have what's known as grammatical gender. In Old...
bátr (boat) is, grammatically, a masculine noun. Any pronoun that refers to bátr must also be, grammatically, masculine, in all cases, and both singular and...
Happy New Year all! Due to a slip of the mouse the first paragraph of the translation - - which we have already translated - - was accidently included in the...
I had some troubles in a couple of places here - - mostly trying to get "hay making" to come out of "töður manna eru undir" and then with this "engu fyrir...
Happy New Year to everyone!. I had problems with some of the same bits that Grace did. Grace, I thought you would be under several feet of snow and ice. ...
Indeed. But here's a tricky little passage from Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar, describing the birth of the eponymous hero: "Ok eigi miklu síðar getr Gautrekr...
Saell Haukur That looks interesting - may I join in "And a little after that Gautrek begot a child with his wife, and he was a
boy-child and was the father of...
OOooops - yes I checked Zoega and Cleasby and there is something like being
brought to the King in Zoega I believe it seems to suggest to me the little boy...
Right, brought to the king. What I wanted to draw attention to is that 'sveinbarn' is a neuter noun but the adjective 'færðr' is in the masculine form so it...
Well there you are then Haukur - I have missed my work with the Group so
much and become out of practice - it was a good exercise and I thank you for the ...
Indeed, but couldn’t this just be an example of a grammatical slip by the author or amanuensis? Or is that too simple an explanation? For someone who’s...
Indeed, there are some tricky issues here. Let's take some examples from the modern language. We have a common colloquial word for a child, 'krakki',...
Hi everyone, I'm trying to establish the order in which the aforementioned phonological evolutions occurred. I think the meaning of "i-mutation" and...
My husband sometimes refers to our barn cat - which we have had for years and which he knows to be male (although neutered)- as "she" in conversation. This...
... I think `svo...með' here = "too" or "as well": "I will ride during the Lord's Day (Sunday) and the night too." ... "You should then all have come/arrived...
#1 The Government is minded to support the amendment. #2 The Government are minded to support the amendment. I can confirm that the latter is an equally...
... Yes, I think you could say it's a similar phenomenon. I think in both cases we're dealing with 'markedness'. In English (and other languages) singular is...
Interesting. The idea of neuter singular as the least marked combination of gender and number ties in with its use for past participles with the auxiliary...
I'm on an oil-platform without proper ON letters and little time on my hands, but I recall an interesting example of sg/pl ambiguity from Heidsævisthings...
Some ON-related comments on English men. About half of the folk working on oil-riggs, -platforms, or -refineries, or working within the oil-service sector...
Kári svaraði: "Ekki skal eg austur ríða því að eitt skal ganga yfir mig og sonu þína." Kari answered, "I shall not ride east because I and your sons...
Here´s my translation. Kári svaraði: "Ekki skal eg austur rÃða þvà að eitt skal ganga yfir mig og sonu þÃna." Kári answered: ’I shall not ride...
I have for over 10 years collected every ON personal name that I could find, including nicknames. My sources have been ON runic inscriptions, mideaval letters...
Saell Konrad This sounds really interesting - among many subjects I have studied - I
would say that Onomastics has been a lasting favourite. I have heard the...
I clicked Send - a trifle too soon I want to hazard a guess that our English Surname "Thorburn" may have
descended from Thorbjorn I believe it seems likely ...
To begin with, I want will post some personal names where folk were simply called after the names of folk, tribes, etc.. Indeed, it was my mention of the folk...
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