Hi Jed and Sarah.

 

As I asked in my posting yesterday: How do you know the sheep are the subject here? The verb var is 3^rd person singular which, normally would preclude a plural subject but I note the þau fé is used later as grammatical singular for plural sense, so I can´t rule sheep out on that score. On the other hand, there hasn´t been any mention of the sheep in the previous ten sentences of the text, so how could they suddenly become the understood subject of this sentence?

 

While I wasn´t entirely happy with my version, the best I could come up with was: “He (ie Einarr) was brought (moved) to the shieling…”.

 

Incidentally, I note that Terry Gunnell´s translation in ‘The Sagas of the Icelanders’  (ed. Jane Smiley) (Penguin, 2000) translates this line: ‘The sheep were driven up to a shieling near the head of Hrafnkelsdal, a place called Grjotteigsssel.’ The introduction states that this translation was based on the main text, AM 551 c 4to, and notes that the saga is found in more than one version; although Gordon does not specify which manuscript his text is from. Maybe the sheep are mentioned explicitly in the some of the other texts.

 

Alysseann

 

 

 

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Subject: [norse_course] to Sarah from Jed re- 'foera'

 

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