Hallo,
Wow. Thank you! That helps tremendously.
Cheers,
Sean
--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@...> wrote:
>
>
> > > I thought that "gróandi" more specifically meant "the growing one"?
>
> It does indeed have this meaning in Alvíssmál stanza 10 where it's
> used as one of various names for the Earth:
>
> "Jörð heitir með mönnum,
> en með ásum fold,
> kalla vega vanir,
> ígrn jötnar,
> alfar gróandi,
> kalla aur uppregin."
>
> "It's called Earth among men,
> Ground among the Æsir,
> the Vanir call it Roads,
> the Giants: Evergreen,
> the elves: Growing (One),
> the High Powers (i.e. gods) call it Clay."
>
> Besides this, there is a weak masculine noun 'gróandi' meaning
> "growing season" in Modern Icelandic. But 'gróandi' is also the
> present participle of 'gróa'.
>
> Present participles in Old Norse are formed by adding -andi (declined
> like comparative adjectives) to the present stem. They have various
> uses, e.g. (examples from Faarlund: The Syntax of Old Norse) as
> adjectives:
>
> farandi konur "travelling women"
> hon gekk þegjandi at Flosa "she went silently (without saying a word)
> to Flosi"
>
> Occasionally to indicate future tense with the auxiliary 'verða':
>
> Magnús varð henni ekki unnandi "Magnus did not come to love her."
>
> And sometimes as as what's called a gerundive:
>
> hverir hlutir elskandi eru "which things should be loved"
>
>
> Then there is a class of agent nouns derived from present participles.
> These are declined as weak masculine nouns in the singular but as
> consonant stems in the plural:
>
> N gefandi gefendr
> A gefanda gefendr
> G gefanda gefanda
> D gefanda geföndum
>
> "giver"
>
>
> Hope that helps,
> LN
>
>
>
> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Valvinir Grágrímr <Valvinir@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I thought that "gróandi" more specifically meant "the growing one"?
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> >
> >
> > --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Valvinir Grágrímr <Valvinir@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Heill!
> > > > Can someone assist or advise me on a VERB matter?
> > > > What is the Present Participle of GRÓA (to grow)?
> > >
> > > gróandi
> > >
> >
>