Great! Thank you *so* much! I think I'm even more excited about this than my
writer friend is. I did one term of ON at university (many years ago). Now
it's clearly time for me to get back to it. :)

Can you tell me what the difference is among the various forms of "rist-" that
you mention? -risti, -ristnir, -ristir, -rista?

best to all,

-elizabeth

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> Hi Elizabeth,
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> Yes, I think that could work. I was just wondering which of the
> various suffixes makes the most convincing agent noun. Anyway
> using -risti, -ristnir, -ristir, -rista as the 2nd part would
> continue the ambiguity: "witer of ends [of stories]" or "carver of
> ends [of people]".
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> Llama Nom
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