--- "Fred and Grace Hatton" wrote:

>
> What is hent? I keep coming up with befitting, but that doesn't seem

to be

> correct. If it is a verb, what is the infinitive?

HENDA

Yes, the basic meaning is "perform an action with the hand",
and thus it means both "throw" and "catch". But the meaning
here is impersonal = "happen, take place, occur". "Eitthvað
hendir einhvern" = "something happens to someone".

Regards,
Eysteinn