Hi Grace,

Sorry about the delay - it seems another weekend sneaked past me unnoticed!

Your translation is great - no worries here. You asked about "keptak" -
well, just to confuse us it seems the Vikings sometimes tacked the personal
pronoun ending "ek" onto the end of the verb - giving us "bought-I"

Also, you queried "með allri minni eigu" - the "ri" bit on "allr" is the fem
dat sing ending which is determined by the preposition með.

Cheers,
Sarah.

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From: "Fred and Grace Hatton" <hatton@...>
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Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:52 PM
Subject: [norse_course] Auðun meets King Sveinn


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> Auðun meets King Sveinn
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> Konungr íhugaði, hverr þessi maðr myndi vera, er hann kendi eigi, ok
> The king considered who this man might be, who he did not recognize, and
>
> mælti síðan til Auðunar: "Hverr ertu?" segir hann. Hann svarar: "Ek
> spoke afterwards to A., “ Who are you?” says he. He answers, “ I
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> em Íslenzkr maðr, herra", segir hann, "ok kominn nú útan af Groenlandi,
> am an Icelandic man, lord,” says he, and come now out from Greenland,
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> ok nú af Nóregi, ok ætlaðak at foera yðr bjarndýr þetta. Keyptak þat
> and recently from Norway, and intended to give you this bear. It was
> bought (I didn’t recognize the verb form here?)
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> með allri eigu minni, ok nú er þó á ordðit mikit fyrir mér; ek á nú
> with all (also didn’t get the “ri”) of my possessions, and now when yet
> much has happened against me, I have now (only?)
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> hálft eitt dýrit", ok segir konungi síðan hversu farit hafði með þeim
> half the beast,” and tells the king afterwards how it has gone with
> them, (he and)
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> Áka ármanni hans.
> Aki, his steward.
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> Grace
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