Re: Hrafenkell 2 / Sarah

From: Laurel Bradshaw
Message: 3700
Date: 2003-09-30

Sarah wrote:

On the line...
Við þetta var lengt nafn hans ok kallaðr Freysgoði,
> Because of that he lengthened his name and was called Frey’s chieftain,
I had "lengt" as an adverb, making the sentence
"As a result of this, for a long time he was also known as Frey´s
chieftain".

Well, you could be right, but because of the construction "var lengt", I
took this to be not the adv. but a form of the verb "lengja" = to lengthen

Great job taking on the corrections. (I wouldn't dare!)

Laurel

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