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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