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From: Halldor Arnason< >
Subject: Re: CONTINUING TO KICK AROUND POOR OLD ROLLO
Date: 5 Jul 1995 19:50:21 GMT


(Tom Camfield) writes:

>In article <3te0pf$>, Ulf Larsson
><> wrote:

>It's proof-reading time here, and let's see if I have it correct.
>The proper spelling of the man's name would be:

>SNORRI STURLUSON in proper Icelandic/old Norse.

Yes.

>I also have a typo in the case of Are Frode/Fode. Is it spelled with or
>without the R? and does Are have an accent over the A?

Keep the r and change the e to i. There is no accent mark over the A, but
there is one over the o. The d should be (eth). I.e. the correct
spelling is Ari fri (or Ari frodi using only ASCII). Icelandic or
Old-Norse names never end in an e.

His full name however was Ari orgilsson (Ari Thorgilsson). According to
Snorri, Ari was the first man to write books in Icelandic, his
predecessors had been using Latin.

Halldr

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