Re: Feedback on Audun´s tale

Sarah,

Thanks sweetie. I should really consult my dictionary next time,
instead of looking like an idiot :(

Það hjálpa til sjá hver þú ert talmynd til.

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Sarah Bowen" <sarahbowen@...>
wrote:

> Hi Dirk,
>
> Thanks :-) [and flattery will get you everywhere!!]
>
> You've got it right this time, well done. Except, bjarndýr is not

a bear-skin, it's the real live animal - as we will see as the story
unfolds!

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> Cheers,
> Sarah.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dirk Howat
> To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 6:33 PM
> Subject: [norse_course] Re: Feedback on Audun´s tale - 2nd

section/Dirk

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> Hi Sarah,
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> WOW! You are great. High quality suggestions.
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> Thanks to your help, I am going to give it another try :)
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> Ok nú fara þeir útan heðan, ok fersk þeim vel,
> Now, they traveled hence and they fared well.
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> (many times ok does not literally mean and but rather a

transition

> to another phrase. So I will not include it. I translated fara

not

> as fare or went, went would be gegen or something, but instead

used

> travel. Literally, "Now they fared hence and they fared well."
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> ok var Auðun of vetrinn eptir með Þóri stýrimanni;
> and Audin was left with Thor the steersmen for the winter;
> (Thanks, Sarah on this one)
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> hann átti bú á Moeri
> he lived at Moeri
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> Ok um sumarit eptir fara þeir út til Groenlands,
> And the summer after, they traveled out to Greenland,
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> ok eru þar of vetrinn.
> and are there for the winter.
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> Þess er við getit,
> About this is told,
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> at Auðun kaupir þar bjarndýri eitt,
> that Audin bought there a bearskin.
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> gørsimi mikla,
> which he treasured much.
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> ok gaf fyrir alla eigu sína.
> and gave all of his possesions for it.
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> Ok nú of sumarit eptir fara þeir aptr til Nóregs, ok verða vel
> reiðfara.
> And now the following summer, they traveled back to Norway and

were

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