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> Sæll LN.
>
> Very minor comments inserted, for what they´re worth. Thanks for

the

> comments on the line length, et al.
>
> As an experiment, I have created up a small web page as a means of
> demonstrating the grammar, glossary, and translation for this

section.

> Please Ctrl + click on the link to go to the page, have a look and

tell

> me what you think. I would be interested in suggestions for

improving

> the way the information is presented.
>
> HYPERLINK
> "http://www.pcug.org.au/~athompso/Misc_B.htm"http://www.pcug.org.au

/~ath

> ompso/Misc_B.htm
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> Kveðja
> Alan
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> Subject: [norse_course] Re: Miscellanea Section B
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> > Þorsteinn Ingimundarson var þá höfðingi í

Vatnsdal. Hann bjó at

> Hofi,
> > ok þótti mestr maðr þar í sveitum. Ingólfr ok

Guðbrandr váru
synir

> hans.
> > Ingólfr var vænstr maðr norðanlands; um hann var

þetta kveðit:

> > Allar vildu meyjar með Ingólfi ganga
> > þær's vaxnar váru -- vesl emk æ til lítil!
> > Ek skal ok, kvað kerling, með Ingólfi ganga
> > meðan mér tvær of tolla tennr í efra

gómi.

>
>
>
> Oooh poetry, can I have a go?
>
>
> Thorstein Ingimundarson was chieftain in Vatnsdal then. He lived

at

> Hof and was considered the greatest man [there] in the district

[plural

> with
> singular meaning]. His sons were Ingolf and Gudbrand. Ingolf was
> the most handsome man in the north country [the north of

Iceland].

> Of him this was said/sung:
>
> All they-wanted girls / with Ingolf to-go / those-who [þær´s

= þær

> er] grown-up were / wretched/miserable [poor me] I'm, alas

[perhaps, æ

> could also be `always'], too
> little. I shall too ['ok' = "too, also", when not at the

beginning

> of the sentence] said [the] old-woman / with Ingolf go / while to-

me

> two cling ['of' here a meaningless filler word used to help the
> metre] / teeth in the-top gum.
>
> And loosely and doggerally:
>
> All the girls they wanted
> with Ingolf to go,
> those ones who were grown-up;
> woe's me that I'm too small.
> Me too said granny,
> I shall go with Ingolf
> while two teeth are sticking
> still to my upper jaw.
>
> Yes, it's "gum", but I strayed for the rhyme and the length. Re.
> line-length, Patricia, I think that's just a typographical quirk:
> editor's choice. Sometimes Norse poetry is printed like this is

the

> same way as Old English verse. But other editors print what in

Old

> English would be "half-lines" on separate lines. Gordon uses the

OE-

> style layout for most things except dróttkvætt.
>
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Your "experiment" is truly *vænstr* in itself. I like the
separation of Glossary, Grammar and Translation. Obviously, you have
done a lot of work to create a labor of love.

For me though, I have only one small quibble. It is the same that I
have for the Greek and Latin texts in the Perseus Project. Perhaps a
personal failing on my part, but I find distracting the hypertext
underlining and the change of font color for "visited" words. I see
that Tarrin Wills avoids the underlining except when the cursor is
over a word, and he avoides the change in color altogether.

In spite of that, great work!