Tinnu Ólafsdóttur fæaddist barn í gær ...
we haven´t got onto the middle voice at college in any depth yet, but at
first sight it reminds me of the sort of language you find in the gospels -
unto Mary a child was born

Would you treat the middle voice more as a passive construction here?

Kveðja,
Sarah.

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I saw a headline in a newspaper a couple of days ago that read:

"Tinnu Ólafsdóttur fæddist barn í gær."

I think that's a rather good example of two features of
Icelandic grammar, the dative and the middle voice.

Any takers? :)

Kveðja,
Haukur


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