--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "nikolai_sandbeck"
<nikolai_sandbeck@...> wrote:

>
> how does it work ?
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> and what is the name for it in Latin and english? :b

In English "subjunctive", in Danish "konjunkiv" - from Latin
"subjunctivus/conjunctivus modus". A very detailed description of how
it was used in Old Norse is M. Nygaard's "Om brugen af konjunktiv i
oldnorsk" in Arkiv for nordisk filologi, first three volumes [
http://runeberg.org/anf/ ], 1883, '85, '86. There's a very brief
introduction to the subjunctive, with tables of inflections, in
Chapter 8 of Old Norse Online [
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/eieol/norol-8-X.html#Nor08_GP38 ].