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Old Norse
Participle
fallinn
- fallen, past participle of falla
- disposed, fitted, worthy
at hann væri betr fallinn at deyja þá sǫk faðir hans- that he more deserved to die than his father did
- (neuter, as adverb) fit
ok hætti þá er honum þótti fallit- stopped when he thought fit
- suited to
Declension
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fallinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive