--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> > Kári mælti: "Jafnt fer þér þetta sem hann ætlaði því að
> > þér eru allir hlutir illa gefnir.
>
> > Kari spoke, "This goes with you even as he expected
> > because to you are all choices badly disposed?
>
> Literally '... because to you all things are ill given', but
> actually '... because you think badly of all things (<allir
> hlutir>)'.
>
> The idiom is at Zoëga s.v. <gefa> (6): <e-m er e-t svá
> gefit> 'one is so and so disposed, thinks so and so of a
> thing'.

Worth taking a stroll down memory lane here, or at least that part of it which leads through the Norse Course archives for October 2005 [ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course/messages/5673?viscount=-30&l=1 ], and especially Haukur's posts 5661 and 5667. Pity the Yahoo Groups site search mechanism doesn't seem to work for strings of more than one word... See also the 'illa gefit' and 'illa fallinn' discussion from November of that year [ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course/messages/5735?viscount=-30&l=1 ].