Re: Toast to wives?

I just found this while cleaning out my out-box; it's months
overdue, but I didn't spot any other answers, so I thought
that I'd post it, if only to have something on record.

At 5:15:12 PM on Saturday, February 19, 2011, Sabin Densmore
wrote:

> Hey folks! Happy last day of þorri!

> If I wanted to toast a group of wives, would I write
> "heilendi várum konar"? I think that says "Health (as
> nom.) to our (dat. pers. pronoun) wives (acc. plural). Did
> I get that right?

You want <konum>, the dative plural of <kona>, and the
possessive pronoun would usually come after the noun: <konum
várum>.

Brian