Thanks to all that gave coucil. These are needed for a knighting ceremony for a friend. This is Society for Creative Anachronism related, and some friends...
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vidhar
Jan 14, 2002 9:31 am
Heil Norse group Where would I be able to find a table that could show me how to write Old Norse in the younger Futhark runes. I carve bone and wooden ...
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Lazarus
lazarus@...
Jan 14, 2002 9:30 am
Sounds like a version of Thorsson's Nine Noble Virtues to me. Here's my try using modern Icelandic usage and comparing against ON: Prowess = Hreysti...
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Úlfgrímr
ulfgrim_godi
Jan 13, 2002 3:09 pm
... No. Cleasby-Vigfusson and Zöega. Skiljum heilir, Úlfgrímr Norse Heathenry Society, Inc. An historical reconstructionist approach to Norse religion ...
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Pavel Iosad
pavel_iosad
Jan 13, 2002 1:31 pm
Heill wes thú! ... You know, to me these looked like a list of knightly virtues. I can even cite a couple of sources with a very similar list. Probably...
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fjornir
Jan 13, 2002 1:31 pm
... I'm guessing you looked this up in "Íslensk-Ensk orðabók", Úlfgrímr; is that correct? That's often a good starting point - but one should always check...
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fjornir
Jan 13, 2002 1:21 pm
... Hi hi :) Translating words out of context is not an easy thing to do. Few of the words above have an exact/unique correspondance in Old Norse. Have you...
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fjornir
Jan 13, 2002 3:25 am
Now That Was Interesting! I just came across some readings from the Edda by Stefán Karlsson. He attempts to use "old" sound values; at least for the vowels....
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Úlfgrímr
ulfgrim_godi
Jan 12, 2002 4:21 pm
Heill ver þú Hrothvar, Here are a couple of suggestions for you... ... hagleikr (specifically in relation to crafts) ... réttvisi ... trú ... vörn ... ...
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hrothvar
Jan 11, 2002 2:28 pm
Greetings unto this list, from a sometime student, sometime lurker. I was requested to get the following words tranlated, and I have had absolutely no luck. ...
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Steven T. Hatton
valfather_1066
Dec 23, 2001 10:33 pm
I seriously doubt I will have time to play with this any time soon, but I believe it could be helpful in learning ON. My guess is there is some kind of...
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Alfta Reginleif
alftareginleif
Dec 22, 2001 7:19 pm
Greetings! Many thanks for posting that. It was very helpful. The Zoëga OCR project is going along pretty well. Tom Wolf and I are working on it along with...
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vidhar
Dec 22, 2001 3:22 pm
G'Day, That's ancient Australian for "Good Day" a language people overseas believe is still spoken in this country. Thankyou Haukur and Oskar, congratulations...
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Stridmann
Dec 18, 2001 1:39 pm
Dear Svanni! This topic was formerly in this list, you can try to seach the old messages. So, as I know, the names of the months (without any comments) were: ...
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Alfta Reginleif
alftareginleif
Dec 17, 2001 2:02 pm
Greetings all, Does anyone know what the Old Norse names for the months were? I've been able to find a few such as frørmánaðr, Gói, Þorri and ...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Nov 26, 2001 11:16 pm
Hello, David! ... Well, he's certainly full of air :-) Actually I don't think there's all that much difference between Bush's air and that of Her Majesty. To...
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birgit001@...
Nov 22, 2001 12:53 am
In a message dated 11/20/01 1:41:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... I am still at sea with that, as well. 'Spät' as a sample word is not helpful, I agree. In...
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David James
dbbj@...
Nov 20, 2001 9:36 pm
Dear Haukur, Many thanks for getting back to me so swiftly and so helpfully. I'm sorry to say, though, that I'm still at sea with ae. I jumped on that...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Nov 19, 2001 10:10 pm
Dear David, ... There is certainly nothing embarrassing about it. You can find a lot of conflicting information on the pronunciation of ON - and it isn't known...
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David James
dbbj@...
Nov 19, 2001 9:45 pm
Dear Folks-- An embarrassingly simple question: just how DO you pronounce ON ae and ei? I understand there are two systems around--one that pronounces things...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Nov 19, 2001 8:55 am
Hello, there! I was reading Karlamagnús saga and I find its mediaeval depiction of muslims rather amusing. Here is an example; part of a conversation between...
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R. Callahan
mysticdragon...
Nov 16, 2001 1:40 pm
Hello; I joined this list this morning, having seen it recommended by a friend on another list. My name is Bob, and I am joined the list to help further my...
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brady.boyd@...
vingamel
Nov 12, 2001 10:06 pm
Wow, I should have a lot of fun with all of this information. Thanks! Yes, I do believe I found the reference in Egil's Saga. --Brady Boyd ... read ... one ...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Nov 12, 2001 9:21 am
... All right. That's a fun question to answer. The adjective "hamramr" is made out of the noun 'hamr' and the adjective 'ramr'. The adjective 'ramr' (Modern...
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brady.boyd@...
vingamel
Nov 10, 2001 11:06 pm
Okay, I don't know a lick of Old Norse, but I love the sagas and read them frequently (in English). I am a fantasy writer, and I named one of my characters...
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Selvarv Stigard
selvarv93
Nov 3, 2001 6:20 pm
Hej Haukur, ... Well, I was thinking something more like a common descent from a Proto-Norse word, like *pjorð, simply because it's the p-rune, but the 'ð'...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Nov 3, 2001 5:35 pm
Greetings James, ... You can pronounce 'v' as an English 'v' or as an English 'w'. The 'ö' is pronounced alike in German and Icelandic. It was not used in the...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Nov 3, 2001 5:26 pm
I looked up some things in my Proto-Norse grammar book and it seems that every grammatical ending that has 'r' in Old Icelandic has an 'R' in Proto-Norse. My...
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Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Nov 3, 2001 5:14 pm
Heill, Selvaarv! ... An interesting theory - but I didn't quite gather how you envisioned the development of the word. Did you conceive of 'peorð' as a...
