Sæll Simon!
 
No I didn´t get your translation first time round, so thank you for sending it again.
 
It looks very fluent, the meaning is there; there are only one or two tiny points I can mention which I hope will help...
 
Bơðvarr then leads his horse into a stable (?)Yes
next to the king’s (other) best horses You may feel that this doesn't flow well in English, but it is just to express the ON word "hinum"
and asks ???Ok, you´re not the only one this posed difficulties for!  "spyrja at" is a phrasal verb consisting of a verb and a preposition, meaning "to ask about".  "Engan" is the masculine accusative singular form of "engi" meaning no-one.  So this gives us ..." and asks no-one about it" or "and asks no-one permission".  
then goes into the hall, and there were few (a few?) Yes people there.
 
Bơðvarr looks from there - þangat is "to there" literally.  I think "from there" would be þaðan
and sees that a human hand - yes, I like it!  Much better than 'man's hand' which is how we translated it in college
is coming up out of a big pile of bones
 
All the other bits were just fine!
You asked for some background information... how historical is this? when did it happen?  I'll do some introductory notes when I post up next weeks lines, if that's of interest to everyone?
 
As for the significance of the name Bothvar, I'm not aware of any, perhaps someone can help us there?  I know his other name 'Bjarki' has meaning - I'll go into that with next week's posting!
 
Bye for now,
Sarah.
----- Original Message -----
From: simonfittonbrown@...
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 4:49 PM
Subject: [norse_course] my translation

Hi Sarah,

no hurry at all, but did you get my translation?
I sent it to you,
but it doesn't seem to have
shown up on the list.
In case you didn't, here it is again.

Cheers,

Simon


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