Re: Hrafenkell 2 / Sarah

> 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

You are correct, Laurel, as per my earlier letter.

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