Heil Konrad!

Þu segir:

> Heilir góðir nemendr!

I assume "nemendr" means something like "learners" - I don't have an ON
dictionary.

> In phrases like 'Eiríkr rauði', the article is eliptical - that is
> to say, it is implied.

A proper name, like "Eirikr," should of its own nature be definite not that
anyone ever accused natural languages of being perfectly logical. So a form
like "Eirikr rauði" - Eric the Rowdy :-) - makes sense to me. However a form
like "Eirikr inn rauði" doesn't. It looks like the article goes with Eirikr,
which doesn't really need an article, making it "the Eric," which seems rather
odd. But then, how common is the pattern Name-inn-def._adjective compared to
Name-def._adjective?


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Stephen Fryer
Lund Computer Services

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