--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "AThompson" <athompso@...> wrote:

>
>>> "Svo mun vera verða,"
>>> `So will (it) be done (?), she says.


>> MM & HP "Very well". I think she's just saying that what he's told

her to do (speak more fully) is going to happen, i.e. "yes, okay, I will."

> Sorry, didn´t explain my question adequately, question really was

about verb construction `vera + infinitive'


I think how it works is that the 'verða' is subordinated to (the
complement of) 'mun', and 'vera' is subordinated to (the complement
of) 'verða': "Thus will [it] happen/turn-out/come-to-pass to-be". As
far as I know 'svá mun vera verða' is synonymous with 'svá mun vera'
"so shall it be".