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Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:35
AM
Subject: Re: [norse_course] 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.
Kveðja,
Haukur