From: llama_nom
Message: 5923
Date: 2006-02-08
>Or like 'njóta e-s' "have the benefit/use of, profit by something"?
> > 'at þú hafir svá þinna mála'
> > "that you'll have that for your court-cases"
> > Genetive plural, neuter. (Dative pl. would be þÃnum málum.)
> Could
> > we think of it as: this is what you'll get OUT OF them? I'll look
> > out for parallels. I don't see anything about this in Gordon or
> > Alvarez. I wonder if there's anything in Faarlund about the
> > genitive being used ablatively like this.
>
>
> Or could it be a bit like the genitive with 'gjalda' "to pay FOR
> (suffer for) something". And with 'hefna' "take revenge FOR". Both
> with that idea of exchange, return for.