Hi there,

"miklu" much more> "miklu vinsælli" much more popular.
"meira vinsæll"> more popular [more settled style)

"sem mest" as many ship (one can imagine?)
"sem mest" as much land (obtainable?)

The author is here (in the chapter) using style of exaggeration


Hope this helps

Uoden

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Patricia"
<originalpatricia@...> wrote:

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> vinsælli: (ll. 686, 688) I presume this is the comparative form.
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> sem mest skip (l. 678), sem mest land (l. 679): What function is

sem performing in these phrases?

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> Vinsælli seemed to me to be comparing present with past behaviour

and what else could it have been but comparative

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> Sem in both cases appeared (to me) to be serving - "as if" or "it

seemed" and might possibly have been a kind of scholarly comment of
the Scribe at the time, implying that he was not actually there at
the time, but it was stated "as far as he knew - or believed" - or
indeed it was as he had been told "from a well-authenticated source"

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> Kveðja
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> Patricia
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