'skrof' "snow-ice full of holes and bubbles", as a nickname: 'skrof',
'skrofi', 'skrofuðr' [
wonder what characteristic (if any) it meant when applied to a person.
 
Just dropping by at the end of a longish day - and I should have thought this  to have applied as a nick - to a Frothy Bubbly personality - the Snowball-Throwing sort - or even one a tad empty headed
 
I see óborinn - more as outer-born - rather than un-born - as  if the child thought to be a "mistake" of his natural parents was considered to be outside - of the realm of  family
JMHO
Patricia
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: llama_nom
Date: 17/09/2008 13:37:00
Subject: [norse_course] Re: Njall 112 end + 113 beginning (nicknames)
 
--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "AThompson" <athompso@...> wrote:
>
> Here´s my translation. Not the most exciting passage I´ve ever
> translated :-(. Thanka again LN for comments on last segment.
> Alan
 
Makes up for the drama of last week's installment!
 
'rotinn' "rotten; with hair fallen out from rottenness" [
mentions the nickname at the end of the entry, so maybe it belongs to
that second sense.
 
'skrof' "snow-ice full of holes and bubbles", as a nickname: 'skrof',
'skrofi', 'skrofuðr' [
wonder what characteristic (if any) it meant when applied to a person.
 
'óborinn' "unborn; illegitimate" [
 
'Játmundr konungr hinn helgi' is "Edmund the Martyr", "Saint Edmund",
king of East Anglia, who was defeated in battle and killed by the
Danish army of Ívarr the Boneless, and from whom Bury St. Edmund's in
Suffolk gets its name.
 
 
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