“Hvað” is “what” in modern Icelandic, and “hvat” in Old Norse.

 

According to Zoëga, ...

 

nökkurr, indefinite pronoun, any, anybody, ...  nökkura hríð = for some time ;

 

munu (man or mun, munda; preterite infinitive mundu) an auxiliary verb simply denoting futurity, shall, will;

 

"kveldið" is “the evening” ; “kveld” is “evening”

 

 

 

From: norse_course@yahoogroups.com [mailto:norse_course@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of elliot.holland@...
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 10:46 PM
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [norse_course] Re: Laxdaela Saga Selected Sentences for August 5, 2013

 

 

Here are some questions for the next selected sentences if you could get to them before Monday.

•I cannot find the translation for Hvað. I know it´s an interrogative pronoun, i´m thinking "what" based on "hvaða," and I'm sure it's just a spelling difference that makes me not able to find it. Which entry should I look under to find the definition?

•Nokkura means any? or could you point me toward the definition? I am trying to change it from masc. pl. dat to mas. sing. nom. in order to find it in the dictionary, but am not sure how it declines. Like an adjective, but I don't see any "ra" endings.

•I am finding many different definitions of "Mund" "Mundr" and "Munda", so I'm not sure about the part of speech, given the position after the object.

•I can´t find how "kveld" is declined to make "kveldið"

•One more, pretty off-topic question: I've read that there is sometimes a "u" mutation where the letter u does not occur in the following syllable. is this something that I am seeing in the Declension of "barn" in the Nom. plural?

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "rob13567" <nielsenjava@...> wrote:
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> Bolli segir þá: "Hvað er nú Snorri?
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> Síðan reið Snorri í Hjarðarholt með nokkura menn.
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> Halldór tók vel við honum….
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> Halldór … bauð honum þar að vera.
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> Snorri kvaðst heim mundu ríða um kveldið ….
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> Síðan taka þeir tal….
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> …lýsir Snorri yfir erindum sínum….
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