Re: A saga for translation

John Cowan wrote:
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> Sally Caves wrote:
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> > What is this partitive particle that
> > we're supposed to ignore?
>
> Looks like it corresponds to French "du", and is attached
> to mass nouns to mean "an unspecified quantity of".
Well, that's kind of clunky in a poem, but let's see what
sense I can make out of that, and if you're right.  Pablo?