Hæ Alle;
English has a simular construct using myself, yourself, himself... .
The French 'Qu'est-ce que tu penses, toi' in English can be
said 'What do you yourself think?' We would not normally say 'Do you
know Sarah herself?', but 'Do you yourself know Sarah?' is
acceptable. Grammatically, both are acceptable but the latter would
common.


ok starfaði fyrir honum Þóri,
and working for Thorir himself,
(indicating an honor; working under a CraftMaster.)

-Arnurdth.



--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Sarah Bowen" <sarahbowen@...>
wrote:

> Hæ Laurel!
>
> I will try to answer this one, but I think you will get a more

comprehensive answer from a native Icelandic-speaker....

>
> I get the feeling that the personal pronoun - here "honum" - is

fundamentally redundant but is used as a reinforcer. A bit the way
the French say "Moi, je...." or "Qu'est-ce que tu penses, toi?"
I've heard it said colloquially in Icelandic too, as in "Þekkir þú
hana Söru?" meaning "do you know Sarah?" where both "hana"
and "Söru" refer to the same person. I´m not sure that English has
this feature - but never having learnt English grammar formally, I
could well be wrong!!!

>
> I'm sure Simon Fitton-Brown could give us some examples from other

languages too, if he's still with the group.

>
> Hope this helps.
> Cheers,
> Sarah.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Laurel Bradshaw
> To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [norse_course] Þáttr Auðunar Vestfirzka / Laurel
>
>
> Sarah wrote:
> Quick off the mark as ever! and I certainly didn't notice

any 'rust' in your translation!!

>
> Well it FELT rusty doing it! LOL!
>
> Only one comment, which is nit-picking rather than vital
>
> Please do nitpick! Isn't that why we're doing this?
>
> Although þá often does mean "then", here it is the 3rd person

singular past indicative of þiggja - meaning to accept or receive.

>
> So it does! Thankyou. Although it still made sense (to me)

without a "verb" there. (-:

>
> I do have a question about one bit:
>
> ok starfaði fyrir honum Þóri,
> and - working - for - him - Þórir
> and working for Thorir
>
> The "honum" seemed redundant to me, and I wonder if there isn't

more to it. Perhaps it should be "working for HIM (i.e. Thorstein)
for Thorir" -- in other words, Audun has been assigned to work for
Thorir BY Thorstein??

>
> Laurel
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