[tied] Re: Dream and rève

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

>
> At 3:21:43 AM on Thursday, May 18, 2006, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > The oldest written down Danish song has "drømdæ mik en
> > drøm", with the experiencing person in the accusative (not
> > even dative).
>
> The double accusative construction seems to be normal in OWN
> as well (e.g., 'Þat vil ek vita, ef þik hafi dreymt nökkut',
> Heimskringla).
>

I don't think it's a double accusative; I think the dream is the
subject (which forces itself on the sleeper, cf night-mare). Nothing
in the two examples preclude that, ON nom. -r was lost in Old Danish.


Torsten