From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 10705
Date: 2009-11-11
> En þó kom svo um síðir við umtölur góðra manna meðI read it as 'plead with him' in the sense of 'join with him
> Þorsteini, því að hann var vel vinum horfinn (hverfa) og
> gengu margir til að flytja með honum,
> But nevertheless, it came-about thus at last (see um
> síðir, under síð) with (the) talk (persuasions) of good
> men (along) with Þorstein, because he was well backed with
> friends (see under hverfa, Z4) and many (people) went up
> to side (plead?) with him,
> Hún var allra kvenna fegurst og best að sér orðin um þaðZoëga s.v. <úsjálfráða> actually has <bezt at sér um þat
> allt er henni var ósjálfrátt en það er mál manna að henni
> hafi allt verið illa gefið það er henni var sjálfrátt.
> She was of all women fairest and at her best concerning
> all that which was not in her own power but that is the
> talk of men that all that which was within her power has
> been ill-given to her.