From: Haukur Thorgeirsson
Message: 4373
Date: 2004-06-29
> I hope you remember this one year old thread. Anyway, I think I haveYou're probably right. I think this is a fairly common ms spelling, i.e.
> solved the mystery of what 'iambr' in "...gæst hia Jone iambr hafde
> þa..." means. The solution was in front of me all the time. Of
> course, 'iambr' is a typo (?) for 'i ambr', which normalized to Old
> Norse is "í Ambir". Ambir is today written Ammer, which is an area in
> Revsund (ON Raufsund).