Grace,

I like yourtranslation.

Your take:
at Auðun kaupir þar bjarndýri eitt, gørsimi mikla, ok gaf fyrir alla
to A. to buy there a bear ?, a great treasure, and gave for (it) all
his possessions.

bjarndyr, how about bearskin, a great treasure. Bear skin would seem
to have a trade value.








--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Fred and Grace Hatton
<hatton@...> wrote:

> Ok nú fara þeir útan heðan, ok fersk þeim vel, ok var Auðun of

vetrinn

> And now they sail out from here, and it goes well with them, and

A.

> stayed over
>
> eptir með Þóri stýrimanni; hann átti bú á Moeri. Ok um sumarit

eptir

> the following winter with Þóri the steersman, he had a farm at

Moeri.

> And in the following summer
>
> fara þeir út til Groenlands, ok eru þar of vetrinn. Þess er við

getit,

> they sail out to Greenland, and stayed there over the winter. Of

that

> which he obtains,(made it possible?)
>
> at Auðun kaupir þar bjarndýri eitt, gørsimi mikla, ok gaf fyrir

alla

> to A. to buy there a bear ?, a great treasure, and gave for (it)

all his

> possessions.
>
> eigu sína. Ok nú of sumarit eptir fara þeir aptr til Nóregs, ok

verða

> vel reiðfara.
>
> And now over the following summer they sail back to Norway, and

had a

> good passage.
>
>
> I imagine eitt means white since I have read the story in English,

but

> couldn't find it even in Zoega.
> Grace
> --
>
> Fred & Grace Hatton
> Hawley, Pa.