> At 08:50 AM 6/13/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >When Gunnar (in Njal's Saga) obtains a halberd,
> >suddenly he's an expert halberd warrior.
>
> Just for th record, halberd is a mistranslation. Gunnar uses a
spear, and
> the word was later used to describe halberd, and the Penguin
translators
> used the later meaning, not the original one.
> Hence, there is no "suddenly" in the statement.
>
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Whatever it was, it certainly was at home.
Jeff