With apologies I know this forum is not a translation service. When the writer of my bygdebok moves from facts and figures to metaphor and analogy, I as a foreigner am quickly lost. Here the author introduces a passage about the behavior and morals in rural western Norway 300-400 years ago..."om dei låg under for låke tildriv, Eller om hugen deira stod til det som var rett og godt og edelt, sjå då kvem vi straks i beit".
I think he means that it is hard to know what was driving people 300-400 years ago; what was going on in their heads:
... whether they were subject to bad inclinations or whether they wanted to do what was right and good and noble, then we are immediately in lack (of an answer)
another translation please
Posted - 17/04/2020 : 01:10:24
