Word: jest
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...great a lawyer that his equal could not be found. Njal and Gunnar used in alternate years to entertain each other for friendship's sake. On such an occasion Hallgertha taunts Njal as being beardless, but Gunnar and Njal refuse to quarrel. Again Hallgertha makes a shameless jest on Njal, but the sturdy men remain true in their friendship...
...past ten centuries, yet it is always pleasant to see new political light shed upon the darkness of the subject. There is a touch of originality here and there, the principal simile is felicitious and the diction is the whole, good - although we doubt whether birds sing "songs of jest...