Hi there Patricia,

Look up the male-adjective "ær'inn" points to "more than sufficient"
maybe "roughly one" could match the "ær'ið eitt".
Cool phrase and familiar.

Hope this directs you nicely.

Thanks Blanc Uoden

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

>
> A note on this word ærið I have just heard from Grace of her

interest

> in our mutual difficulty with the word and Grace did suggest that

it

> might have a relationship with the word used to mean "Honour" .
> I have found an entry in the supplement of CV that had the word -
> ærr-lauss - without honour - since neither Grace nor myself have
> the notion that it has anything to do with sheep
> It seems in the beginning of the chapter that Thjostolf - our

friendly

> neighbourhood homicidal maniac is protesting his going in search

of the

> wethers along of Glum's servants whom he calls Thralls then

Grace's idea

> will be in the right direction - it is beneath this man's over-

estimated dignity

> to go searching for sheep.
> But ærið is definitely not in the book
> I am feeling a trifle sheepish that I had not noticed this before
> Patricia
>