From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 10430
Date: 2009-07-01
> Sendimaður sagði að annar þeirra bjó við málnytu "og hefirMessenger.
> bæði kýr og ær að búi
> (The) trustworthy man
> said that one of them lived with milking livestock "and'At (his) farm' might be a better choice here.
> has both cows and ewes at home?
> en annar á þriðjung í landi því er þeir búa á og fæðir sigNo father here: <fæðir> (older <fðir>) is third person
> sjálfur
> and (the) other owns a third in land where they live on
> and (their?) father himself
> og hafa þeir eina eldstó og hinn, er landið leigir, ogI think that <hinn, er landið leigir> is co-subject with
> einn smalamann."
> and they have only (one) hearth and that one, who rents
> the land, and one shepherd."
> Þórhallur mælti: "Enn mun þeim fara sem fyrr að þeim mun'Reject' seems to fit the context a bit better than 'set
> hafa yfir sést og skal eg þetta allskjótt rengja fyrir
> þeim
> Thorhall spoke, "Still will (it) go with them as before
> that (it) will have been overlooked by them and I shall
> very soon set aside this for them
> og svo þó að Eyjólfur hefði hér alldigur orð um að rétt'And (shall do) so even though Eyjólf had here very big
> væri."
> and also still that Eyjolf had here very important words?
> concerning (it) that (it) were correct."
> Mörður gekk þá að dómi og nefndi sér votta "í það vætti,"Here I think that <fyrir þat er hann ruddi> is best
> sagði hann "að eg ónýti
> Mord went then to court and named witnesses for himself, "
> in witness thereof," said he, "that I nullify
> lögruðning Eyjólfs Bölverkssonar fyrir það er hann ruddi
> þá menn úr kviðinum er að réttu eiga í að vera.
> (the) legal challenge of Eyjolf Bolverkson for it when he
> challenged those men out of the jury who had to be there
> correctly.
> Er sá hver réttur í búakviði er hann á þrjú hundruð íThe first <er> is the verb 'is'; the second is the relative
> landi og þaðan af meira
> That one who is correctly in a jury of neighbors who has
> three hundred in land and even more still
> þó að hann hafi enga málnytu.Although he have no milch cows. (Or in more current
> that he have no milking livestock.
> Hinn er og réttur í búakvið er hann býr við málnytu þó að... when he has a household with milch cows, even though ...
> hann eigi eigi land."
> That one is also correctly in a jury of neighbors; he is a
> farmer with milking livestock even though he owns no
> land."
> Lét hann þá koma vættið í dóminn. Gekk hann nú þangað að<Vættið> here is 'the testimony' (that he has just given).
> er búarnir voru og bað þá
> Then he had witnesses come into the court.