--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Daos_1" <ninpuucho@...> wrote:

> Sooo, from everyone else's as well as yours, Sigra is basically a
> physical conquering of other people, which i can't really use. I

need

> a word for Overcome as meaning to go through a tough trial or
> experience and overcome it. You know, a struggle within yourself.

You

> wanna quit, but you keep pushing, and overcome.
>
> sorry for being such a bother...but this is kinda critical for me to
> get that exact word...thanks so much to you all. *thumbs up*

No bother, not if it teaches is something. For want of more OIc.
examples, we could look at Google for modern Icelandic usage. I see
there are a few where 'sigra' is used nonphysically, e.g. triumph over
evil, defeat good with evil, conquer/overcome desires, as well as
victory in sports, battle, etc. And, as I mentioned, I did find some
figurative examples from Old Icelandic too: to defeat "rage with
patience" (reiðini með þolinmæði) and to overcome "their
stubbornness/agression" (þrálæti þeirra). So you could well be
alright with that after all.

'sigrast á', with the object in the dative case, appears in a lot of
contexts. It seems to be used for triumph over adversities in modern
Icelandic at least. Google has examples of this verb used in MIc. for
triumph over trouble, stress, illness, fear, fear of the dark, doubt,
dyslexia, drug addition and sexual predilections, etc. as well as
plain old "enemies". In standardised Old Norse spelling, in the
system used by Norse Course and Gordon's Introduction to Old Norse,
that would look like 'sigrask á'.

Llama Nom