--- In norse_course@egroups.com, "Keth " <keth@...> wrote:

Heill kisi,

> 1. Maðr kastir stein (a man throws a stone)

"Maðr kastar steini"

Your theory was amusing :) In the case of this sentence, "kasta"
happens to take dative, so your following paragraph kind of gets
blown into the wind...

(I don't mean to correct you, I just thought other students should
have safe reference)

> (Q: what is the stem of maðr ?)

That's kind of complicated. Practically, the stem is MANN. A certain
sound shift caused instances of stem final NN + R ending to yield ÐR;
thus 'maðr', then 'mann' + ending in the rest of the cases.

> Góð júl!

Gleðileg jól! :)

Óskar