The Red Line Blues: þóttisk, thought

ok þóttisk finna at eigi hafði frama til at ganga fram at hitta hann.

and seemed to find that [he] not possessed courage to go forward to
meet him / who seemed to lack the courage to step forward to approach
him



Sæl Patricia,

'þykkja' "seem"
'e-m þykkir' "it seems to s-one" = "s-one thinks"
'þykkjask' "consider oneself, think that one [is, knows, can see,
etc.]"

So maybe "and he [the king] thought he [the king] detected / perceived
that he [the man] lacked the courage..."

Llama Nom