On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 04:12:46AM +0200, keth@... wrote:

>
> Wow! Suddenly the list is teeming with life!
>
> Somebody wrote:
>
> "Við Haukr munum vega Eystein. Eysteinn er feigr. Vega munum við hann."
>
> Here is what it says:
>
> Haukur and I will put roads through Eysteinn. Eysteinn is a loser. Fight
> we shall with him.

Huh? Where did you get the roads from? And why assume the second við is
a preposition, rather than "we" again. (Is við the MI spelling of vit?)

> Here is how I think it should be in modern Icelandic:
>
> Við Haukur munum vega Eystein. Eysteinn er feigur. Vega munum að honum.
>
> And here is how I think it should be in Old Norse:
>
> Vit Haukr munum vega Eystein. Eysteinn er feigr. Vega munum at honum.
>
>
> (The original message was evidently some kind of mixture of modern Icel. and Old
> Norse. I have also put in an error or two, just to make it interesting :)

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Arlie

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