The impersonal verb in Old Icelandic

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50 .. a week. II An exact English translation would be this: liTo him was "missingness ll nearly a week l1 ! En peim Sfuni vara ekki at orai. (p.71, 1.409) Here the real agent is the curious Icelandic dual construction, here in the dative "peim s'mi ll , which equals II(tO) S~ and hi s companion l1 • This is a very idiomatic Icelandic expression. Cf. p.66, 1.239 / •• pVl at Compare I'Laxdoe la saga ll , (Class V), p.75, 1.535 (Class V). / / / / mer synisk nu ovandleikit via hann.(p.76,1.590) Chap. 13: II •• en po pykkir oss vandf'engi t manns .( r-0m pi ttll. Class V( e), cf. Class IV. / "Ovandleiki til, a past participle as a neuter ac1jecti ve, cannot / be the su~ject of "synisk". So lfsYniSk ll must be impersonal. / / But cr. line 584: "Synisk mel' petta starfarninna", where lIpetta ll could be either an accusative after the impersonally used lfS~TLisk" or a nominative and the subject of IIsynisklt. If ./ ./ the infinitive were present, thus: IISynisk mer petta vera / starfamip..na ll , accusative. we could be more sure that this IIpetta ll was an Nominatives apparently can stand after the verbs they govern, as is evidenced by p. 74, 1.518: ilBeoi t / pykki mer Hraf'nkel1 hafa sneypu l1 , where the nominative is "Hraf'nke111i and the finite verb H pykki 11. If IIHrafnkell l1 were in accusa ti ve form it would have only one III II • / Brennu-Njals saga: / •• at ill9rgum la via bana. (p.91, 1.96) Li terally it is 11 •• that for many it lay wi th deathtl. The impersonal 11 i til again denotes II chance" or an inscrutable, mysterious force. Cf. Class V(d), p.88, 1.31.
51. • • l bra monnum mj~k via pat. (p.93, 1.146) The subject 1Iit" again perhaps supernatural force, as often. ears to denote a mysterious,
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Page 11 and 12: 11. "Skal" implies more of modality
Page 13 and 14: 13. than as a modal verb; hence thi
Page 15 and 16: 15 • .I / Eigi parf langt fra pVl
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Page 21 and 22: 21. CLASS III CLASS III: Impersonal
Page 23 and 24: 23. • • eigi hlyddi honum at et
Page 25 and 26: 25. / / ) Munper verba amre1issamt
Page 27 and 28: 27. vlhen deciding on his ovm choic
Page 29 and 30: • • Ok sv'mikit sem honum p6tti
Page 31 and 32: 31 .. / Leif's Voyage (F1ateyjarbol
Page 33 and 34: 33. the distraction of a defi~ite d
Page 35 and 36: or !lAss H according as "Fanc;)' th
Page 37 and 38: 37 • vague than the focus Ilman!!
Page 39 and 40: the actior. of the passive verb or
Page 41 and 42: 41. make the verb passive. Var ~a /
Page 43 and 44: •• h versu .Lari ~ t h a f~' ul
Page 45 and 46: 45 • ./,/ (6) Ok lykr par fra Hra
Page 47 and 48: 47. unexpressed. Of. p.13, 1.283 (C
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Page 57 and 58: impersonal and syn.ony.ms. liSkyi t
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Page 61 and 62: 61. / / / / Val' pa fari t upp a hu

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