Harald Storaker wrote in message ... > >"arleen wood" <ajwood@home.com> skrev i melding >news:3A39B4FA.EF0B7BEA@home.com... > >> Sogemenner segjer at sume gardar lagdest øyde etter Svartedauden 1350. >> Folk rauk til for bredd, Folk rauk til for i sume tun alle, i andre dei >> fleste . > >> [Folk tellers say that some farms laid abandoned after the Black >> Death of 1350. People stacked the hay to dry, for alongside? farm-yard >> for everyone, for other people the most. > >Folk tellers say that some farms laid abandoned after the Black Death of >1350. People died at a great scale, people died, on some farms all of them, >on other farms most of them. Folk tellers = storytellers or folkstory-tellers. Agree with Harald, that this is not about hay, but about the situation after the Black Plague. My suggestion: "Storytellers say that some farms were empty after the black plague. People died like flies. On some farms, everyone died, on others most of the people died." Marianne