You are welcome to any assist that I can give Grace
I often am most content when we least disagree, we
seem to see things similarly -
Um bestur Kveðjur
Patricia Artursdottir
 
You would be surprised how many the negatives that had  
ú - in CV - show as ó - in the text that we have for an assignment
There must be an explanation - in syntax for this.  
 
Notwithstanding my preferred explanation -
that ú negative or ó-neg depends on your blood-group
I have always said Latin had the Syntax from Hell - until I tried Old Norse
Goodnight all - it is 00.15 this side the pond
P.
 
-------Original Message-------
 
Date: 22/08/2008 22:44:58
Subject: [norse_course] Thanks Patricia and LN!!
 
Thank you both!
Grace
 
> og fannst það eitt á að Freydís þóttist allvel hafa um ráðið
> and it seemed that Freydis alone? thought (it to) have (gone) quite
well with the plot
 
Lit. "and that alone was noticed that Freydís thought herself to have
dealt with [the matter] very well". We could maybe paraphrase it
something like: "and there was nothing to indicate that Freydís didn't
think she'd dealt with the matter very well", or "Freydís showed no
sign of remorse; on the contrary, she was very pleased with how she'd
dealt with the matter", "[...] she thought she'd resolved matters very
nicely." 'ráðið' = normalised ON spelling 'ráðit', neuter nom./acc.
past participle of 'ráða'.
 
> er þau máttu til fá og skipið bar
> which they could get for (it) and carry to the ship
 
"which they could get, and (which) the ship bore." (That is, which the
ship could carry; all that they could get, and that the ship could hold.)
 
> og komu í Eiríksfjörð skipi sínu
> and came to Eric's Firth by means of their ship
 
"and brought their ship into Eiríksfjörður". Where 'koma' is used with
a dative noun, it becomes transitive.
 
> óskatt
 
Like Patricia said, "undamaged"; óskatt = úskatt, neuter nom.acc. of
úskaddr/óskaddr. The same as English "unscathed", a loanword from Old
Norse.
 
 
Fred and Grace Hatton
Hawley Pa
 
 
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