--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@...> wrote:

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> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "heathenfray_9" <heathenfray_9@> wrote:
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> > What does kvedja mean.us ive seen it before but never knew the meaning
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> As a noun, it means "greeting" or "salutation", whether delivered in person, or in a letter, or passed on by someone else. Cleasby/Vigfússon has some examples of how it was used in Old Norse, "greeting, welcome, compliments, salutation (at the beginning of a letter)" [ http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/png/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0361.png ]. It's the second entry in the right-hand column. I don't know whether by "the address" on a letter they mean what I'd call the address, namely the formal description on the envelope of where the letter is to be delivered to (Modern Icelandic <póstfang>), or if they're referring to the salutation (the way that the reciptient is "addressed" in the letter).
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> The Icelandic Online Dictionary offers one main definition, "greeting", together with a couple of examples of current usage:
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> berðu honum kveðju mína
> "say hello to him for me, give him my best wishes"
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> með kveðjum frá...
> "with the compliments of..."
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> http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/IcelOnline/IcelOnline.TEId-idx?type=entry&eid=KVED1JA-1&q1=kve%F0ja
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i thought it would good bye because you guys use it at the end of a letter
doesn't make sense to end a letter with a greeting