From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 12166
Date: 2012-02-08
> Kjartan segir að eigi mundi mikið undir hverja hann ættiAccording to my other edition, there's a sentence missing
> en lést engrar skyldu lengi vonbiðill vera.
> Hrefna tekur nú ofan faldinn og selur Kjartani moturinn og
> hann varðveitir.
> Þeir Ólafur og Ósvífur héldu hinum sama hætti um heimboð.The implication being, I think, 'the same as before'.
> They, Olaf and Osvif, support the very same mode of life
> during the feast.
> They Olaf and Osvif kept the same behavior regarding
> invitations to their homes.
> They, Ólafr and Ósvífr held to (maintained) that same
> custom (dat of háttr) concerning feasts.
> Guðrún mælti nú við Bolla að henni þótti hann eigi hafaTo her, I think.
> sér allt satt til sagt um útkomu Kjartans.
> Gudrun spoke now with Bolla, that she thought he himself
> didn't have said all the truth concerning Kjartan's
> arrival in Iceland.
> Gudrun spoke now with Bolli that she thought him not to
> have spoken entirely truthful to her regarding Kjartan’s
> arrival from abroad.
> Guðrún spoke now with Bolli that he seemed to her not to
> have spoken for himself (or to her?) completely truly
> concerning Kjartans arrival-in-Iceland (coming out).
> Bolli kvaðst það sagt hafa sem hann vissi þar af sannast.MM&HP seem to take <þar af> as 'at that time', referring to
> Bolli said for himself (t) have said that as he knew there
> of to prove true.
> Bolli said he had said what he knew there as truthfully as
> possible.
> Bolli declared-of-himself to have said that which he knew
> from there (ie from that time) most-truthfully (superl of
> sannr).