At 7:59:42 AM on Friday, September 25, 2009, AThompson
wrote:
> Heres my translation.
> Brian, many thanks for comments on last section. One
> follow up question, if I may re:
> CV s.v. <góðr> (III) has <fara með góðu> 'to bring good',
> and another edition has <Þeir sögðu hann mundu hafa gott
> ørendi>,
> Im a bit puzzled by the form of <munu> in both editions.
> I would have expected <mundi> to agree with <hann>. Isnt
> <mundu> 3rd pers plural?
Here it's the preterite infinitive. You can see a few other
examples of the construction at the end of the first
paragraph of CV s.v. <munu>. If you have Barnes, _A New
Introduction to Old Norse_, you'll find this discussed in
3.9.4, Accusative and infinitive, especially p. 239.
Brian