Great, Thanks Xigung for your observations, I am
puzzled by the way some of my letters come out in the replies you make, I sit
here and say "I did not do that" I have microsoft XP and a character map and
to get all the outlandish letters I have to ask the character map and it gives
a code and you hold Ald and type the code on the Right hand side of the
keyboard, it sounds slow like that but if you want you can do all kind stuff
with it, and it's sure faster than it sounds you get so used to doing Alt+0240
for the eth in Auðun I bet you will not get that, how does it alter in getting
to you, very curious indeed
Sæl Patricia! My impression is that the king
simply gave Audun "time" to take a bath. I cannot imagine a king who
personally orders/commands every little detail in his household. I
think he leaves many decisions to the care of his household. But I am not
sure such a king lived like an oriental potentate; conditions may have
been more humble. A couple of years ago, there was a movie about "The
White Viking", where some of the conditions under Olav Tryggvason had
been reconstructed. If I recall correctly, they had a large bath
there, where people could almost swim. In a movie about Charlemagne,
they had also included some sort of indoor swimming pool. But I do not
know if these pools are historically documented.
I think the
verb "láta" is like German "lassen", to "let" things happen, allow, etc.
Well, I'll see if I can find examples. At any rate, N.Ã . Nielsen says
that Danish "lade" is etymologically the same as G. "lassen", O.E.,
Gothic "letan", etc. To me, it has a kind of relaxed quality about it.
(and very little that freudian stress- producing state of
mind)
Vale, Xigung.
Patricia
wrote: > We are not dealing here with an English story nor
with English people, things (I believe I'm glad to say) were a trifle
different then > The king ordered a bath for Au�un of
course he did, in those days there were servants scampering about the
place, all intent on doing King Sweinn's bidding, all he had to do was
clap his hands and Order > Kve�ja >
Patricia > Never mind if you do not believe what I say -
ask Alan of Service.