These are good too LN - Must print up to study later
Thanks a Lot
Patricia
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From: llama_nom
Date: 28/06/2008 19:20:48
Subject: [norse_course] Re: Greenladers Saga Ch1 Patr 2 Patricia's Translation
it depends on your blood group]
This was a dialectal difference in Old Norse. Icelandic and some parts
of Norway had ó-, while other parts of Norway had ú-. But Icelandic
scribes were influenced especially in the later Middle Ages by
Norwegian spelling norms.
Perridon, Harry (2003). "Dialects and written language in Old Nordic
II: Old Danish and Old Swedish". p. 1018. Old Nordic III: The ecology
of language, in The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the
History of the North Germanic Languages. Volume 1. Eds. Oskar Bandle,
Kurt Braunmuller, Ernst Hakon Jahr, Allan Karker, Hans-Peter Naumann
and Ulf Teleman. Walter De Gruyter: 2003. ISBN 3110148765.
Exactly.
sigla þetta dægur áður þeir sáu land
'vinda' is the 3rd person present indicative, used here without any
conjunction before it. Lit. (with shifting tenses) "After that, they
saw the sun and were able to discern the directions, [and they] hoist
the sail, and sail [all] this day before they saw land".
Yes.
Lit. "(over)grown with woodland". 'skógi' and 'viði' are the datives
of the nouns 'skógr' and 'viðr' respectively.
Lit. "and made the corner of the sail point towards the land". Gordon:
"sail[ed] along the coast".
I'm imagining Bart and Lisa from the Simpsons chanting "are we nearly
there yet" ;-)
former
"He said he didn't think this could be Greenland any more than the
land they saw earlier"
"He said he reckoned this [land] was no more [likely to be] Greenland
than the first/earlier/former [land they saw]"
"The believed themselves to both need wood and water"
"They felt that they needed both wood and water"
"hoist the sail"
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