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This week the Old Norse lesson that I'm making available to Patreon early is no. 22, on verbs with directs objects that aren't in the accusative case

Patreon is now a long way far ahead in the Old Norse language lessons, and the audience for these videos is diminishing with each one that goes up, so I'm going to take a break from filming and posting them for a while. That ought to allow whoever wants to follow along a chance to catch up, and gives me more time to work on other deadlines and provide the large amount of other Patreon exclusives coming in the next two months (a lot of great Crowdcasts, and the Christmas cards, for example).

Publicly-posted videos since my last vocabulary post have included the public debut of our Crowdcast where Matthew T. Mossbrucker answered your dinosaur questions, a skeptical look at the very widespread internet meme that claims Santa Claus is based on Odin, and a quick guide to some of the major stylistic (or almost "font") differences between runes in the Viking Age, like long-branch vs. short-twig styles

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All the best for now, and thank you for another month of your incredible generosity,

Jackson Crawford

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Patreon Vocabulary: verbs with non-accus. objects

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Anonymous

I may be missing something here, but is there a reason that the 3rd sing. past of fylgja is spelled with a j (fylgjdi) and the the 3rd plur. past without (fylgdu)?

Anonymous

By the way, this is in reference to the list of principle parts for fylgja in old Norse lesson no.22

norsebysw

If I wrote it that way, it was a typo. It's past 3rd sing. 'fylgdi/fylgði' and plur. 'fylgdu/fylgðu.'

Anonymous

I am sorry I did not discover these lessons earlier. I love this kind of stuff. I am more acquainted by academic study with the development of German, and this video reminds me of the German verbs that likewise take a dative direct object. I did a study of these once years ago and discovered a commonality that intrigued me: the verbs all signal an activity that involves the participation of the object. Help (helfen) is the most obvious example. If I help someone, they are clearly involved in the action. Another good example is encounter (begegenen), because if I encounter you on the street, you are there and some sort of exchange is implied. Answer (antworten) takes a direct object in the dative because you use this verb only to describe giving answer to a person. If you answer a question, the word takes a prefix "be-" to become "beantworten. "Ich beantworte eine Frage," but "Ich antworte meinem Vater." I would imagine this evolved out of situations where a verb could have both a direct and indirect object: "Ich bringe meinem Freund das Buch," where the indirect object has agency but direct object has none.