Re: Njal 36 beginning + part 2 / Alan's Translation (e-m ferr vel/i

From: Eysteinn Bjornsson
Message: 7653
Date: 2006-12-03

--- "llama_nom" wrote:

> Is that what will "go well for him", or is Njáll just
> saying that he won't come to grief in the short term at least?

It's a very "open" kind of idiom, very dependent upon context
of course, but here I suspect he would be saying something like
"I expect you will do well", "I'm sure you will get through
this OK" (but it will be bloody difficult!).

E.

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