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From: "E. Brian Littlefield" <>
Subject: Re: NORWAY-D Digest V97 #251
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 01:24:43 -0500


>
> Subject: Translation help,please
> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 17:00:18 -0500
> From: The Nortons <>
> To:
> Here is the elusive sentence-
>
> Han gikk beinveges over marka når han skulle på arbeid.
>
Patti:

My wife Anne got stuck on "beinveges" so she went to her fathers
dictionary.
"beinveg" - shortcut; "beinveges" - directly

So "he walked directly (took a shortcut)across a field when he was going
to work.
Anne this would not be unusual as the roads often went "the long way
round."
Brian LittlefieldFort Wayne, IN

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