Re: Eirik's Saga Ch6 to end and Begin Ch7 Patricia's Translation

From: llama_nom
Message: 8431
Date: 2007-07-22

> Eiríkur reið til skips og aðrir landsmenn og tókst með þeim greiðleg
kaupstefna.

> Eirik rode to the ships with other Countrymen and they had there
(took with them) good trading. [Yorkshire dialect for good/fine is
gradely - perhaps from this word greiðleg]

The OED agrees:

"ME. greiðlic, a. ON. greiðlig-r, f. greið-r GRAITH a. + -lig-r -LY1."

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