Góðan daginn

 

Within this passage, my main concern was with deciphering / deconstructing ”ok nú er þó á orðit mikit fyrir mér” while Gordon’s glossary translation: ”now I have come into a great difficulty” is hardly helpful in this regard.

 

Kveðja

Alan

 

Translation: Auðun - 9

 

Konungr íhugaði, hverr þessi maðr myndi vera,

(The) king considered (contemplated), who this man would (might) be,

 

er hann kendi eigi, ok mælti síðan til Auðunar:

who he did not recognise, and (he) spoke then to Auðun:

 

'Hverr ertu?' segir hann.

’Who are you?’ he says.

 

Hann svarar: 'Ek em Íslenzkr maðr, herra',

He answers: ’I am an Icelandic man, Lord’,

 

segir hann, 'ok kominn nú útan af Grœnlandi,

He says, ’and come now (lately) from abroad from Greenland,

 

ok nú af Nóregi, ok ætlaðak at fœra yðr bjarndýr þetta.

and (just) now from Norway, and I intended to bring you this bear.

 

Keyptak þat með allri eigu minni,

I bought that with all my possessions,

 

ok nú er þó á orðit mikit fyrir mér;

and now however, (it) is come to pass greatly (severely) for me;

 

ek á nú hálft eitt dýrit',

I now own (only) one half of the animal,

 

ok segir konungi síðan hversu farit hafði með þeim Áka ármanni hans.

and says to (the) king how (it) had gone between them (he and) Áki his steward.

 

 

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