> hafa það uppi af er verst er og berja í brestina
MM &
HP "showing all the worse articles and trying to disguise
their
defects."
> gefist honum eigi vel
MM & HP "are
rude to him"
> óæðra bekk
See the diagram in Gordon: An
Introduction to Old Norse, p. 229.
> Ærinn hafa þeir
klækiskap
MM & HP (paraphrasing) "A lot of perverts, that's about
all."
> Hann mun spyrja hvað þú færir til þess að eigi megi koma
maður í
stað hans.
MM & HP "Hrut will ask you what makes you
think that no one can fill
his place."
> að aldrei varð á um hans
höfðingskap
MM & HP "that his chieftainship was quite faultless."
Is this the
idiom 'e-m verðr á' "one makes a mistake,
blunder"?