From: llama_nom
Message: 5120
Date: 2005-04-04
> What if it's the air the tower is 'hanging on' as well as 'in'? Itseems plausible to me, the writer over-repeats himself, 'hekk á turn
> Does this preposition clash with any rules? Both of them takesaccusative in a temporal 'role' (I have to get my grammatic english
>it.
> Annika
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> llama_nom <600cell@...> wrote:
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> I'm puzzling over this description of a wondrous tower in Eireks
> saga víðförla:
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> Sá þeir þá því líkast sem stöpull væri ok hengi í loptinu ok engir
> stólpar undir. Þeir nálgast þangat. Þar sá þeir, at hekk á turn í
> loptinu á engum stólpum. Sunnan við turninn stóð stigi.
>
> They saw then what looked (for all the world) like a pillar /
> steeple / tower. And it seemed to be suspended in the air with
> nothing holding it up. They approach it. Then they saw that A
> TOWER WAS HANGING (?ON [IT]) in the air with nothing to support
> A ladder stood propped against the south side of the tower.less
>
> stöpull, m. (1) steeple, tower; (2) pillar = stólpi
> stólpi, m. post, pillar, column
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> I'm just trying to visualise this miraculous set-up. I'm assuming
> that in this case 'stöpull' isn't synonymous with 'stólpi', since
> we're explicitly told that there aren't any of those. But is
> the 'stöpull' likely to be the same as the 'turn' (perhaps just
> specific when seen from a distance), in which case can 'hekk á' besteeple,
> used in an absolute sense, simply "was hanging [up there]"? Or
> does 'hekk á' imply that the 'turn' is dangling down from a
> or that it's just hanging suspended in the air perhaps balenced ondown
> top of a pillar that doesn't reach all the way to the ground?
>
> Somehow I don't think archeology can help us here, so it comes
> to the grammar. All suggestions (sketches?!) welcome,Service.
>
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