From: Blanc Voden
Message: 6616
Date: 2006-06-30
--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@...> wrote:
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>
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> brúðlaup, brullaup, same meaning as brúðkaup, but derived from
brúð +
> hlaup. CV: "refers either to the bride's journey = brúðför, or to
> some bridal procession on the wedding day, probably the first; but
in
> fact both words are only used of the wedding feast".
>
>
> > En fátt var um með þeim Hrúti um samfarar og fer svo fram allt
til vors.
>
> I think the literal meaning is that "there wasn't much by way of
> 'samfarar' ("intercourse", in this case: sexual), acc.pl.
of 'samför'
> between them". Magnús Magnússon and Hermann Pálsson: "But
throughout
> that winter the marriage between Hrut and Unn remained a marriage
only
> in name."
>
>
> > Síðan fór hann heiman og vestur í fjörðu og byggði allt féið og
fór
> > þegar
> > Afterwards he journeyed from home and west into (the) fjords and
> > released (?) all the property and journeyed at once
> >
> > vestan.
> > from (the) west (ie back east)
>
> MM & HP: "Hrut rode off west to the fjords, collected all his
money,
> put it out to loan again, and then rode back home."
>