--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@...> wrote:

>
>
> > nær hvorum vænna horfið.
>
> Zoega has under 'horfa' "to look": hvárum horfir vænna "who is more
> likely to get the better", but isn't the neuter past participle of
> this verb 'horft'?

Just got a message from Eysteinn:

> My texts all have:

> "... var nær hvorum vænna horfði", i.e. "it was hard to say for whom

it looked better".