Thanks Uoden.
This is very helpful. Eyvind and his men are obviously picking up the
"grjót" to throw them at the enemy, aren't they? If so, do you imagine
them as scooping up "grjót" by the handful and would each "pebble"
within a handful of "grjót" be big enough to throw one at a time, with
effect, or would they need to throw whole handfuls at once to deter the
enemy?
I recall often seeing small flocks of sheep sheltering from the wind
under the "bakkar" of "meltorfur". Icelandic sheep are very stupid but
still clever enough to find protection from the wind. Australian sheep
are very stupid too :)
Alan
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Hi there,
By tradition:
"í fjallsHlíðinni" is: on the slope of the mountain.
"Hlið"(side) of "hæð"(hill) or of "fjalli"(mountain) we name
Hlíð. Where in inclation points to vertical: we begin to use term
as Hamar, Klettur, Klif,....
"Grjót", "urð", "möl", sandur,... is like sugar.
As "Grjót" is relatively the biggest or comparable somtimes to small
rock or stone it takes singular also.
"Byggja á" can refer to two things: it can refer to the soil(floor)
Or the main material that is used in the building it self.
See "Build on".
One can broke "Grjót" (Brjót) out of "Kletti" Rock:
But we do not say "Grjót" are/is "Klettur" but "Grjót" are/ Stone/s"
Hope this helps
Uoden
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