This is way off topic, but I can't help but be curious. I am making drop spindles for spinning wool. In making the whorls (weights) of clay, I thought it...
Oh, yes! I forgot to reply to this originally. Basically I think you were doing okay with the runes but the grammatical endings have the 'other' R (żrr). ... ...
Haukur Thorgeirsson
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Jul 3, 2004 10:21 pm
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I am trying to read Ragnarsdrįpa. I have found it to be rather difficult but what I have been able to read is quite lovely. The eleventh verse is the first...
William Calhoun
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Jul 3, 2004 10:49 pm
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... If you could read the first ten stanzas of Ragnarsdrįpa without encountering difficulty then it's probably you who should be giving lessons :) But let's...
Haukur Thorgeirsson
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Jul 4, 2004 1:39 am
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Hi Fred and Grace Hatton, alu: Krause (1937 444-64) gives an overview of inscriptions in which this word appears; cf. also DRI: 629 A word of the runic sacred...
Hi! Just a few more words on that half-stanza from Ragnarsdrįpa. I looked up 'fengr' and 'fengeyšandi' in Finnur Jónsson's Lexicon Poeticum and it turned...
Haukur Thorgeirsson
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Jul 5, 2004 12:16 am
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... difficult but what I have been able to read is quite lovely. The eleventh verse is the first place I encountered difficulty. Could anyone clarify this...
... An afterthought here. Translating 'nam rįša' as "had her way" rather than "ruled" brings the stanza even more into line with Snorri's account. The thing ...
Haukur Thorgeirsson
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Jul 5, 2004 10:38 am
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I'm trying to translate an english sentence into ON and I haven't gotten a determination on whether skyldr (the word right) in English, refers to the...
I translated Who are you? (you being plural) into: Thik Heitir Are being the verb, and Thik being the accusatory plural form of you. Is this correct? I think...
... Not quite. Here are the problems. 1. The form 'žik' is indeed accusative - however the nominative is called for here (the verbs 'vera' and 'heita' take a...
Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Jul 8, 2004 11:59 pm
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Thanks for your help, I apologize not using a norse font, I don't have one at this particular computer, and don't know how to use it in Yahoo groups via the...
... It's usually not a question of 'font'. If the following characters are displayed correctly on your screen (fyrst accented vowels, then o-umlaut and finally...
Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Jul 9, 2004 3:50 pm
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Thanks for all your help, its beginning to make sense. ... Isn't hvat what? How about hverr? Scott...
You are thinking in English. The way you would ask the question is "What are you called" (literally: What do you call yourselves?) That is why you need the...
Heil. I finally wrote a solution to the second part of my second rune project. I allowed myself some speculation on the relation of these inscriptions to ...
Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Jul 11, 2004 1:03 am
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Hailsa, I am totally new to Old Norse although I study german philology and am about to learn norwegian, I probably can't say 'Please, I want to have two...
runic inscription from norway (late 11th cent or 12th? - new e rune and c?): aslakar:gerže= =mik:runar:ek:*rist:au=k raž:na:sta*ue:uer*sici -ar in aslakar a...
... Not like ų1 ;) It is an u-umlauted version of short ę. In theory, a long version could exist, but I am not aware of any words that have this long grade....
I have studied modern Icelandic and I am well acquainted with the sounds of the language but I am correct in saying that modern Icelandic has a whole slew of...
William Calhoun
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Jul 26, 2004 5:23 am
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... I don't know about 'slew' but some, certainly :) And vice versa. ... Sure. ... More or less. ... Well... It's not exactly the same. But it seems both are...
Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Jul 26, 2004 11:01 am
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Can anyone recommend a solution for Office X for masc users who would like to be able to type or pring Norse characters? By the way, what is the parent...
... Why, Even Older Norse of course! :) It's usually called Proto-Norse. That, in turn, is a descendant of Proto-Germanic which is a descendant of...
Haukur Thorgeirsson
haukurth@...
Jul 26, 2004 8:59 pm
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... have ... hafde ... Old ... area in ... i.e. ... No, but I rather assumed that the guy who compiled the digitilized file must have made some mistake. But...
I was looking at making a computer glossary for ON and OE, and was wondering what the cognates for "gögn" would be in either language. Thanks, James I was ...
I was looking at making a computer glossary for ON and OE, and was wondering what the cognates for "gögn" would be in either language. Would it be "gang" in...
Hi, I was wondering, what is the breakdown of the Icelandic / Old Norse "Alfręšioršabók "? I can make out "bók", but what are the other words? Thanks, ...
... Hmm... I think the Modern English cognate for 'gagn' is "gain". Maybe you can work backwards from that. And 'gögn' is certainly the Modern Icelandic word...
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