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Thanks LN this is of great interest - with the notes on the dialect words - I did not know of a Palsgrave - but I imagine that is where the Writer of
"Palgrave's Golden Treasury" got his name
Thanks again
Kvedja
Patricia
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From: llama_nom
Date: 02/05/2008 17:26:11
Subject: [norse_course] Re: Njal Ch 100 Part 2 Patricia's Translation
More specifically: "who preach that faith"
A reasonable paraphrase. MM & HP, also paraphrasing a bit, have "at a
place called Gautavik".
That's right (and compare the English loans from German: landgrave,
margrave, palsgrave). The nominative singular of the Old Norse word is
'greifi'. The Oxford English Dictionary has an entry 'grave' n.3.
"[a. ON. greife, of obscure origin; prob. a. OS. *grébio (MLG. grêve)
= G. graf GRAVE n.4 (In South Yorkshire documents of the 16th c.
GRIEVE n. and grave are used indifferently.)]
"a. A steward, a person placed in charge of property (obs.).
"b. In certain parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, each of a number
of administrative officials formerly elected by the inhabitants of a
township."
'grieve' (from Old Northumbrian 'geræ´fa') is a northern form of
'reeve' (Old English 'geréfa', earlier 'giræ´fa', hence sheriff =
"shire" + "reeve"), "of uncertain etym[ology]" says the OED,
"app[arently] not in any way related to the continental forms cited
under GRAF, GRAVE n.3 and n.4."
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