QUESTIONS ABOUT FÆREYINGA SAGA 2

From: simonfittonbrown@...
Message: 2316
Date: 2002-11-14

Hi, and many thanks for the new episode!

1. Again, I'd love to find out more about these names and their meanings, please: Þrándr/Þorlákr

2. tvá sonu = Modern Icelandic tvo syni, I guess. This is what I would expect in a way, it's just that I thought plural numbers took the genitive singular in Modern Icelandic and Old Norse, e.g. fimm manns (five men).

3. fríðr sýnum, handsome to the sight(?) - I'd have expected the singular, but maybe as he appealed to the sense of sight of lots of people…..

4. Þrándr var ok með því móti/tíðenda: þetta er hebreska fyrir mér!:-)

Many thanks. Finding it more difficult than the first, but I love a challenge!

Cheers,

Simon

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