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Oh Right Point Taken - yes I believe Sinn would make more sense translated
as 'their ' I do not like the sound of what I have heard about Freydis Eiriksdottir
Thanks for all your comments
Fenguist - yes, and fengisk 3rd Subj Pl yes - Got that on board
Kveðja
Patricia
-------Original Message-------
From: llama_nom
Date: 12/08/2008 15:57:20
Subject: [norse_course] Re: Greenland Sage Ch6 toend and Begin 7 Patricia's Translation --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Patricia" <originalpatricia@...>
wrote:
helming gæða allra við hana, þeirra er þar fengjust. Nú játtu þeir því.
and share half of all the goods they acquired with her. Now they
agreed to it
That's right, except that I think 'sinn' might be "their" ship.
Grammatically it could be "her" or "their" (referring back to the
subject of the main clause, Freydís, or the embedded/subordinate
clause, the brothers), but I got the impression she was asking them if
they'd come along with their ship which is bigger than the one she
has. Given what happens later, maybe she's already thinking about how
she can get her hands on it... 'fengjust' is the modern form of the
3rd person subjunctive plural = ON 'fengist', earlier 'fengisk'.
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