Hi I have come up against that odd little letter am
o with a squiggle - cannot do that one so I'll do an ö
Right that's that settled
In the Glossary of the New Introduction to Old
Norse it gives for vextr see vöxtr went there and found
vöxtr ( gen - vaxtar)dat.sing vexti - in
size at vexti in shape
so might it be that since drengiligr - certainly
given here as Valiant the phrase you give
drengiligr í vexti. signifies
some one of Noble or Valiant proportions or of appearance, it could be saying he
was of such noble appearance that he looked like he was made to commemorate
something
I trust this helps
Patricia
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Subject: [norse_course] Need help: Eireks
saga víðförla - Chapter 1
I am working through the Haukur's glossed version of Eireks
saga
víðförla and I got to this line:
Hann var rammr at afli, frækn
ok framr at öllu, drengiligr í vexti.
But the glosses stop at öllu. I
believe drengligr is "brave" but I
cannot find "vextr" or "vext" in Zoëga's
dictionary. Does anyone know
what this means?
Thanks for the help!
This list sure is valuable.