![]() Where fault can be found, the good is ignored.įár bregður hinu betra ef hann veit hið verra.Ĩ. There are few more certain tokens of ill than not to know how to accept the good.įátt vísara til ills en kunna eiga gott að þiggja.ħ. Með lögum skal land vort byggja en eigi með ólögum eyða.Ħ. With law shall our land be settled, and with lawlessness wasted. Old friends are the last to break away.ĥ. Rjúf aldrei sætt þá er góðir menn gera meðal þín og annarra.Ĥ. Never break the peace which good men and true make between thee and others. There are more things to be thought of by men than money alone.Įn fleira er mönnum til hugganar en fébætur einar.ģ. One’s back is vulnerable, unless one has a brother.īer er hver að baki nema sér bróður eigi.Ģ. ![]() ![]() Do not hesitate to share yours in the comments below.ġ. I hope you will like my top ten favorite quotations from sagas. (It is not even clear if we can talk about the authors of the sagas at all: passing from generation to generation does not allow for the notion of a single author.) However, it is not clear whether the authors of the sagas believed they simply told what had actually happened, with no fictional details. It is to note that the past of the inhabitants of Iceland was not distant and obscure: they knew that their ancestors had populated their homeland rather recently, and that the events of the ‘taking of the land’ (landnám) were still fresh in the memory of the society as a whole. It was hardly possible to relate accurately what happened two to four hundred years before that. On the other hand, the events of the classical sagas took place between the 9th and the 11th centuries, which is at least two centuries earlier than the time they were first written down. On the one hand, the original listeners (many researchers believe that sagas had long been transmitted orally) were sure that sagas relate the very words and deeds of their ancestors. Classical sagas (known as sagas of Icelanders) constitute a unique literary genre. Its meaning in Old Norse is ‘what is said’, ‘tale’, ‘story’, or ‘narrative’. Used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.The Old Norse word saga is cognate to English say and German sagen (‘say’). Photo: Lonely house by the mountains, Iceland. If you want to beat a dog you will easily find a stick. Når man vil slå hunden finder man lätt en kæpp. If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. Lidet er om den mans vrede, som ingen vurder. You have to learn to crawl before you can walk. One must howl with the wolves one is among.ĭen hund som bieffer meget, han bider ikkun lidet. The maniacs have many funny hours that the sane guy does not have. Norwegian Proverbsĭei galne har mange morosame stunder som den vettige ikkje har. What is hidden in snow, is revealed at thaw. There is no bad weather, only bad clothing. The later in the evening, the more beautiful the people.ĭet finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder. ![]() Ju senare på kvällen, desto vackrare folk. No trees grow to the sky (Nothing lasts forever). Swedish ProverbsĪlone is strong (You can accomplish a lot on your own). You will reach your destination even though you travel slowly. Mild physician – putrid wounds (idiomatic translation). The necessity teaches a naked woman how to spin.īer er hver að baki nema sér bróður eigi. Feel free to post your own favorite Norse and Viking sayings in the comments below. Today I would like to share with you a few proverbs from Scandinavia.
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