----- Original Message -----

From: Scott Humbert

To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:08 AM

Subject: [norse_course] As you may have guessed...

Patricia:

As you may have guessed, I am doing as a project a translation of the Prose Edda.  Anyway, here's what I came up with:

Frá honum er þat sagt at hann                  gaf einni farandi   konu    at launum skemmtunar sinnar eitt
Of     him     is this said to  her  (he would) give a wandering woman as a reward  (?????)(???) eight
plogsland         i        riki
plowing lands of his kingdom
sínu      þat er                 fjórir öxn               drægi upp       dag    ok     nótt.
as much (as) that which four oxen (could) drag up (in) a day and a night.

I couldn't find it in the Cleasby-Vigfusson dictionary, but I guess "skemmtunar" is the "secret pleasure" you translated it as?  Is there a dictioanary or some resource on the chatgroup pages that I could use in translating these?  I'm just starting out with Old Norse as well.  I like your effort at it though.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

Skal,

scott



--- originalpatricia@... wrote:

From: "Patricia" <originalpatricia@...>
To: <norse_course@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [norse_course] "honum"
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:38:55 +0100

I would like - as a beginner to this Language - to try my translation

Frá honum er þat sagt at hann gaf einni farandi konu at launum skemmtunar sinnar eitt plógsland í ríki sínu þat er fjórir öxn drægi upp dag ok nótt.
From Him (dat) is this said that he gave to one (a particular) traveller woman for (a) secret of pleasures of his one (a particular) ploughed field in kingdom his (or of his rule) that is (by) four oxen dragged up day and night
For a "running" translation
It is said of him that he gave a certain travelling woman - for a secret pleasure a field that it took four oxen a day and night to plough

I an open to correction - and any help will be appreciated, for I had to try this since I am unable to read text like this without wanting to pounce!!
Kveðja
Patricia



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Scott Humbert
  To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:09 PM
  Subject: [norse_course] "honum"


  Does anyone know what the word "honum" means?  As in this sentence from the Gylfaginning of the Prose Edda:

  Frá honum er þat sagt at hann gaf einni farandi konu at launum skemmtunar sinnar eitt plógsland í ríki sínu þat er fjórir öxn drægi upp dag ok nótt.

  Is this word a pronoun or an oft-used word that appears in different forms (like a verb conjugation) so looking it up in the Norse/English dictionary wouldn't show an entry with that form of the wrod?

  Thanks.

  scott





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