Как перевести?

jpdfo1982

Bíða nú, hatta sá eg ikki í føroyska tekstinum í mínum boðum. Takk fyri, at tú gjørdi meg varugan við hetta.

Jú, tað er tað. Orðatakið sigur: "Frítt er Eystfelli frá at fara." Meg minnist bara ikki reiðiliga, á hvørji oyggj Eystfelli er.

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Oh, hang on a second, I missed that in the Faroese text in my post. Thanks for pointing this out for me.

Yes, it is. The proverb goes: "Frítt er Eystfelli frá at fara." But I don't quite remember on which island Eystfelli is located.

Heidning

Is it possible to find the full text of the tale on the Internet? I've found just a short English overview so far

jpdfo1982

Well, no, not that I know of

I tried Googling, which I assume you've tried too, but, alas, no luck. Your best shot would be at finding the book, in which it's included.

Unfortunately, I've begun to doubt whether it was V. U. Hammershaimb or it was Dr. (Jakob) Jakobsen, who wrote it down. I can't tell right now, but I'm positive it's one of these two. If it's indeed Dr. Jakobsen, I want to give a tiny warning, since he wrote in his orthography, which differs slightly from the current Hammershaimb orthography.

deardron

Tað kann jú væl vera Eystfell, ikki Eystfelli

jpdfo1982

deardron, eg haldi, at -fell er íslendskt. -felli er føroyskt. Jökulfell, ið sakk norðanfyri Føroyar fyri 13 mánaðum síðani, var eitt íslendskt skip. Eg ørminnist okkurt um, at okkurt føroyskt skip hevur itið 'Helgafelli' ella okkurt líknandi, men tað, eg skuldi siga, var, at føroyska sniðið er '-felli.'