Re: ON Grammar

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Edgar Widlund <edgarwidlund@...>
wrote:

[...]

> The adjective gulr(yellow) gives the plural genitive as gulsa.I
> thought adding only a was right.I don't see why the ending  "sa"
> is used.

The gen. pl. ending is <-ra>; to the best of my knowledge, the
correct form here is <gulra>.

> Also,the adjective vanr(accustomed)  uses the ending vanla in the
> genitive plural and I don't see why.Where does the "l" come from.
> I don't know how it is derived.

It looks to me like an error for <vanra>.

[...]

> At first I wondered if these items were a typo error.

That's what it looks like to me.

Brian