Sælir, Alan & Llama.

Your thoughts on konungr v. konungrinn are interesting.
One thing you should keep in mind is that the mss. often
abbreviate this very common word. Thus it may in some cases
be up to the editor whether or not to use the article.

The same holds for such issues as whether an "s." in a ms.
stands for "segir" or "sagði" - editor fiat.

Kveðja,
Haukur

> Hæ L.N.
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> Yes, I had similar thoughts on konungr and konungrinn, thinking that
> references to his 'physical presence' may tend to result in the inclusion
> of the definite article while references to him in his 'royal role' may be
> more likely to be expressed without the article. I´m not sure that the
> complete text of Auðun fully bears this out though.
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> Vertu sæll
> Alan
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> Sæll Alan,
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>> Throughout this story ‘konungr’ appears countless times
> without a definite article where, in English, one would normally be
> used; then out of the blue, the article is used in: ‘Ok nú er
> hann sá konunginn.’ Can anyone give a reason why it would be
> used
> on this particular occasion?
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> I don't know. Álvarez: "Antiguo Islandés" says that most of the
> time there are no hard and fast rules governing the use of the
> suffixed article, but presumably there must have been some feeling
> about when it was right to use it. I'll look out for more
> examples. The one thing I noticed here was that the king has been
> mentioned a few times over the preceding few sentences, but this is
> the point at which he actually appears in person. Could that have
> something to do with it? Does it add to the drama of the moment?
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