Hey Grace,
I am not familiar witht the verbs yet, but fersk þeim vel,
your translation sounds right, eptir then means following, yes it sounds like
our after (æfter) in Old English, Yes I think you must be right, with eitt being
white, for the polarbears were perhaps a rare thing, must have been only a cub,I
am trying to estimate the havoc that could be caused if a healthy grown up Bear
of any color would cause on a Viking craft,
Patricia
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:33
PM
Subject: [norse_course] Auðun 2
Ok nú fara þeir útan heðan, ok fersk þeim vel, ok var
Auðun of vetrinn
And now they sail out from here, and it goes well with
them, and A.
stayed over
eptir með Þóri stýrimanni; hann átti bú
á Moeri. Ok um sumarit eptir
the following winter with Þóri the
steersman, he had a farm at Moeri.
And in the following
summer
fara þeir út til Groenlands, ok eru þar of vetrinn. Þess
er við getit,
they sail out to Greenland, and stayed there over the
winter. Of that
which he obtains,(made it possible?)
at
Auðun kaupir þar bjarndýri eitt, gørsimi mikla, ok gaf fyrir alla
to A.
to buy there a bear ?, a great treasure, and gave for (it) all his
possessions.
eigu sína. Ok nú of sumarit eptir fara þeir
aptr til Nóregs, ok verða
vel reiðfara.
And now over the
following summer they sail back to Norway, and had a
good
passage.
I imagine eitt means white since I have read the story
in English, but
couldn't find it even in Zoega.
Grace
--
Fred & Grace Hatton
Hawley, Pa.
A
Norse funny farm, overrun by smart people.
Homepage: http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/
To
escape from this funny farm try rattling off an e-mail
to:
norse_course-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com