Re: "it skilleth not greatly"

Great find! :)

Haukur

> I haven't forgotten about those translations; hopefully I'll get time
> to read through the rest soon... Meanwhile, I just thought I'd share
> this with you, an Early Modern English idiom I came across. Thomas
> More writes in Utopia:
>
> I will describe therefore to you one or other of them, for it skilleth
> not greatly which
>
> i.e. "it makes little difference which". Compare the impersonal use
> of Icelandic / ON 'skilja'.