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æ & that's what it is LN - it them little beasts of Diphthongs
Look at one and you may see another - it's them what does it
Thanks for your comments,
Have been hoping that I had really got their idiom - well it seems very good
Kveðja
Patricia
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From: llama_nom
Date: 31/07/2008 21:26:01
Subject: [norse_course] Re: Greenland Saga Ch5 to end and begin 6 Patricia's Translation Good stuff. The bits you underlined look fine to me. 'sætt' = 'stt'
"sweet" (neuter nom/acc sg. of 'str'), rather than 'sætt'
"reconciled", the past participle of 'sætta'. (I guess that's what you
were thinking of with "peaceful"?)
'hvort' (ON 'hvárt' "whether", "which of two") is just a way of
introducing an either-or question, so you could simply translate it:
"Shall I answer his words or not?" The 'eða eigi' "or not" can also be
left unstated, e.g. 'hvárt grætr þú?' "are you weeping?"
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