--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Eysteinn Bjornsson"
<eysteinn@...> wrote:

>
> --- "AThompson" <athompso@> wrote:
>
> Minn skuggi féll um stund
> My shadow fell for a (time) while

> "Um stund" in combination with "féll" implies

a very short while - i.e. a moment. "Um stund"
here is very close to "momentarily", "for a
second".


Does it make any difference whether the possessive adjective comes
before the noun or after, and is it more normal not to use the
definite article when the possessive adjective comes first?

>> (Is this the window into your world?)

> The ambiguity surrounding that question is, perhaps,

key to the power of the poem. Is this a lovesong, or
is that shadow akin to Plato´s on the wall of a cave?
Is the poet a stalker, or a philosopher? Both?


Me likes! A kind of a Rorschach ink-blot test of a poem, a
tantalisingly Protean shadow the poet has cast on the window of our
worlds, come to think of it...

Llama Nom