Sword wielding women - LN - thank you that is heart-warming - I was once - in defence of a person
of my family a veritable "Skjold-Maer" - no sword - but I tell no lie - a Bex-Bissel Carpet sweeper
is a most excellent weapon (against burglars) when in the right hands of course, and a Girl has to do
what a girl has to do. It is funny looking back but at the time - scary.
Kveðja
Patricia
Excuse me - for blautar myrar - could that be Black Morass/es ( as distinct from Black molasses of course)
llama_nom <600cell@...> wrote:
llama_nom <600cell@...> wrote:
> frá Keldum
I don't know if this would have been on the minds of people building
farms, but those bogs could come in handy for defense. There's a
scene in Þorgils saga ok Hafliða where attackers are thwarted thanks
to a combination of 'blautar mýrar' and sword-weilding women.
> > > lá hátt tanngarðurinn
> I think the author is saying that his upper teeth are
large and protruding - I'm sure there must be an English
term for that? We call them "skögultennur" - teeth
that "skaga fram" - i.e. "protrude". S. was probably ugly
as sin - but the author is being polite about it. At least
that is the sense I get from the whole description.
Buck-toothed maybe? Although that's specifically the top front teeth
sticking out, i.e. like a rabbit's.
LN
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