Thank you LN  but I see I have misread    

 Kippti upphávum  I could not  get upphávum  properly nevertheless I saw

Kippti  defined as jerked and saw  that he was putting his boots on so

I took it as meaning jerked to his feet and went for his boots to put them on

And his tunic - well it's cold out there  upp seemed to go with Jerked and I got

Jerked (I.e. Suddenly) to his feet and got decently dressed to go to the door

I have misunderstood - should I have rendered it as  "he got up and jerked on his boots"

Would that have been better

Please advise

Patricia

 

 

 

 

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

>
> Those high shoes of yours Grace I have called boots in my

translation, they would be maybe high up around the leg

>

> Hrútur hafði vakað og kippti upphávum skóm á fætur sér, fór í treyju

og tók sverð í hönd sér.

MM & HP: "H. had been lying awake. He jumped up at once and pulled on
his tunic and boots. He took his sword..." But I think the "he
jumped up at once" has been added by the translators, perhaps (and I'm
just speculating here) to give the sense of sudden movement in 'kippa'
which might have been lost by rendering it "pull on".