farinn

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1) gone, undone;

þá er farnir vóru forstöðumenn Troju, when the defenders of Troy were dead and gone;

hans tafl var mjök svá farit, his gaine was almost lost;

farinn af sulti ok mœði, famished and exhausted;

farinn at e-u, destitute of (farinn at vistum, lausafé);

tungl farit, a ‘dead’ moon, new moon;

sól var skamt farin, the sun was little advaned, not long risen;

þá var dagr alljós ok sól farin, broad day and the sun high in the sky;

2) so and so conditioned;

vel andlits farinn, vel farinn í andliti, well-favoured;

mjök aldri farinn, stricken in years;

vel orði (or orðum) farinn, well-spoken, eloquent;

impers., e-m, er e-n veg farit, one is so and so;

er eigi einn veg farit úgæfu okkar, our ill-luck is not of one piece;

veðri var þannig farit, at, the weather was such that;

hversu landinu er farit, what the condition of the country is;

henni er þannig farit, at hón er mikil ey, löng, (viz. the island) is so shaped that it is large and long;

fig., of disposition, character;

er honum vel farit, he is a well-disposed man;

þeim var úlíkt farit at mörgu, they were unlike in many respects;

undarliga er yðr farit, ye are strange men;

adding the prep. til: nú er annan veg til farit, now matters are altered;

nú er svá til farit, at ek vil, now the case is, that I wish;

3) á förnum vegi, on the high-road (ef maðr andast á förnum vegi);

hann kom heim af förnum vegi, from a journey.