Re: Njall 94 + beginning 95 / Alan's Translation

From: llama_nom
Message: 9110
Date: 2008-03-25

> Sveinninn svarar: "Veit eg að Skarphéðinn vó hann og þurfum við ekki
á það að minnast er (I reckon `er' relates back to `það') sæst
(sættast, past part?) hefir á verið og fullar bætur hafa fyrir komið."

> The boy answers: `I know that Skarphéðin slayed him and (but) we
need not remember that which has been settled upon and (which) full
compensations has come for.'

That's right: in normalised Old Norse spelling, sæzt.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Z1QEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA142&lpg=PA142

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