Re: Njal 63 part two - Patricia's translation

 

 

--- In norse_course@ yahoogroups. com, "Patricia Wilson"
<originalpatricia@ ...> wrote:

>

> I checked in CV and saw there were two meanings for feðgum - father

and son

> together and also CV gives it as Ancestors - I see I got confused there

In the CV entry for 'feðgar' the only meaning given is "father and
son(s)" [ http://lexicon. ff.cuni.cz/ png/oi_cleasbyvi gfusson/b0149. png ].

Maybe you were thinking of 'langfeðgar' "paternal ancestors"? Or
maybe your eye strayed to the following entry 'feðgin'? It says that
'feðgin' originally meant parents "mother and father", but that at the
time of the Reformation the word 'foreldrar', originally "ancestors",
came to mean "parents" (due ultimately to German influence) and
supplanted 'feðgin' in this sense. Nowadays, 'feðgin' has come to
mean "father and daughter".

LN