--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "AThompson" <athompso@...>
wrote:

> On the question of why Auðun uses ‘vér’ in ‘en engu játum

vér øðru en þessu er vér høfum áðr ætlat,’ my assumption
when reading it was that the expression must have been a proverb, or
well-known saying, and Auðun was simply quoting it.

>
> Kveðja
> Alan

Hi Alan,

Another interesting idea. Do you know this site:

http://www.usask.ca/english/icelanders/index.html

Richard Harris's "Concordance to the Proverbs and
Proverbial Materials in the Old Icelandic Sagas". I don't think
it's possible to search the whole thing, but if I ever get time, it
would be good to look through it and see if there's anything
similar. I haven't really read enough Norse yet to know if this
sounds like proverbial material--but I'll bear it in mind. There's
certainly a lot of traditional sayings in some sagas.

Llama Nom