Re: [tied] Re: Dream and rève

At 4:42:43 AM on Friday, May 19, 2006, tgpedersen wrote:

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

[...]

>> 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.

I don't know about the ODan example. This particular OWN
example is ambiguous, but <Ragnhildi drottning dreymdi
drauma stóra> (Hálfdanar saga svarta) isn't, and neither is
<Draum dreymdi mik> (Gísla saga Súrssonar).

Brian