Grace

 

Comments as usual

 

Kveðja

Alan

 

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From: norse_course@yahoogroups.com [mailto:norse_course@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Fred and Grace Hatton
Sent: Saturday, 18 February 2006 10:39 PM
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [norse_course] H 571

 

It is frustrating sometimes to more or less get the wo rds , but not the

meaning!  Are they hanging with their knees over the poles or hanging

entirely by their tendons or are they upside down at all?

 

Grace

 

 

 

Þá taka þeir Hrafnkel ok hans menn ok bundu hendr þeira

Then they take H. and his men and bound their hands

 

 

 

á bak aptr. Eptir þat brutu þeir upp útibúrit ok tóku reip (probably plural, although grammatically could be sg or pl) ofan

behind (their) back.  After that they broke open the shed and removed  (tóku

ofan- Gordon) rope

 

 

 

ór krókum, (plural) taka síðan knífa sína (their) ok stinga raufar á hásinum

from (the ) hook, take knives afterwa rds and stab holes by their (Achilles?)

tendons

 

(according to Zöega, it is their Achilles tendon)

 

 

þeira ok draga þar í reipin (definitely plural here) ok kasta þeim svá upp yfir ásinn ok

and haul there on the rope and cast them so up over the pole and

 

To me, how the men are strung up depends on whether þeim refers to the men or the ropes. I am inclined to think it refers to the ropes so that the men end up hanging upside down, suspended from the beam.

 

575 binda þá svá átta saman.

bind it so eight (are) together.

 

 

 

Þá mælti Þorgeirr: 'Svá er komit nú kosti yðrum, Hrafnkell,

Then spoke Þorgeirr, "So (it) is come now your choice, H.,

 

 

 

sem makligt er, ok mundi (past of munu, would) þér þykkja þetta ólíkligt (unlikely), at þú

as deserved is, and you remember to think this probable (?), that you

 

 

 

mundir (past of munu, would) slíka skömm fá af nökkurum manni, sem nú er orðit.

remember such shame suffer(ed) from any man, as now is happening.

 

 

 

Eða hvárt viltu, Þorkell, nú gera: at sitja (just ‘to sit’) hér hjá Hrafnkeli ok

But what do you wish, Þorkell, now to do, that here (you?)sit beside H. and

 

 

 

580 gæta þeira, eða viltu fara með Sámi ór garði á brott í örskotshelgi

watch them, or do you wish to go with Sam away from the farmyard into

sanctuary

 

 

 

við boeinn (homestead, farmstead) ok heyja féránsdóm á grjóthól nökkurum, þar sem (where)

within arrow-shot of home and perform a court of confiscation on any rocky

knoll,  there as

 

hvárki er akr né eng?'

(there is?) neither field nor meadow?"

 

 

 

Þetta skyldi í þann (that ) tíma gera , er sól væri í fullu suðri.

That should in time happen, when the sun would be full in (the) south.

 

 

 

Þorkell sagði: 'Ek vil (want) hér sitja hjá Hrafnkeli. Sýnisk mér

Þorkell said, "I will sit here beside H.  It seems to me this (is)

 

585 þetta starfaminna.'

less work.

 

Þeir Þorgeirr ok Sámr fóru þá ok háðu féránsdóm, ganga

They, Þorgeirr and Sam, went then and performed the court of confiscation,

go

 

 

 

heim (‘back’, I think is better here) eptir þat ok tóku Hrafnkel ofan ok hans menn ok settu

home after it and took H. and his men down and set

 

 

 

þá (‘them’, acc pl, I think) niðr í túninu, ok var sigit blóð fyrir augu þeim.

it below in the home meadow, and blood was sinking down before (their) eyes

for them.

 

(this is where I got the idea they had been hanging upside down)

 

I agree.

 

 

Þá mælti Þorgeirr til Sáms, at hann skyldi gera við Hrafnkel

Then Þorgeirr spoke to Sam, that he should do with H.

 

 

 

590 slíkt, sem hann vildi, -- 'því at mér sýnisk nú óvandleikit við

such as he he wished, " because (it) seems to me now not difficult with

 

hann.'

him."

 

 

Fred and Grace Hatton

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