Allright guys, this might be slightly off topic, but it's been driving me insane. :) I've been trying to figure out what the hell the runic inscription...
Nice to see someone awake, I thought they'd all gone away, there has been no sign of activity for a couple weeks, I could not open the attachment, else I would...
... Aha, so you *are* alive out there! I was all ready to email and see if the site was down or if I had been inadvertently kicked off the list...Freydis...
Saell Freydis, Last I heard from anyone, was that Alan was going for a Holiday to Iceland, I have gotten rid of the envious greenish tinge to my skin and we...
Hello everyone, I'm a beginning student of Old Norse. I'm wondering if there's a Norse word that has roughly the same semantic domain as English "end", in the...
Elizabeth Shipley
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Aug 13, 2005 11:49 am
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There are several words for Death, Elizabeth, Bani - this seems to bear a relationship with the O/E word - bane, I believe it has been used as recently as in...
... Well, there are these lines in Ynglingatal: Veitk Eysteins enda folginn lokins lífs á Lófundi, Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson interpreted: "ég veit, að endi...
Sæl öll and hello all, ... Yes, Patricia, but still, from my secret mountain stronghold in the depths of Shambhala, illuminated only by the glow of my third...
... Okay, here goes my first guess: "I know [that] the ending of Eysteinn´s concluded life [was] hidden in [the district of] Lófund." -- i.e. I know that...
Saell Llama well Hello Llama It's so nice to have you back where you belong Sung to Hello Dolly, we may be a little quieter til Alan gets back, but hopefully...
... driving me insane. :) I've been trying to figure out what the hell the runic inscription says, but all I ended up with was TP_DRG_JTRLOO... Don't ask...
Hi Llama Nom, Thanks for all the great info! I'm so excited about this language. "Endi" looks promising for my purposes. A friend who is a writer asked me to ...
Elizabeth Shipley
e_shipley@...
Aug 13, 2005 8:19 pm
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... lid; a ... the "cover" ... Or "weeds/fern", like pushing up the daisies? ... Fun, isn't it! ... asked me to ... mean "Writer of ... English -- ... like a...
Hello everyone, Thanks to all who helped me out so generously with my "end/death" problem. As you see in my latest message to Llama Nom, what I'm really...
Elizabeth Shipley
e_shipley@...
Aug 14, 2005 3:16 am
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... problem. As ... for is a ... or "Endwriter". I ... Would you ... Hi Elizabeth, Yes, I think that could work. I was just wondering which of the various...
Hi everyone, If I'm not mistaken, the letter "C" is generally used in Old Norse except as subsitute for "k", but it could creep in when a name is borrowed from...
Hi Kiyo, I think the third choice is right: <c> before front vowels in foreign names = [ts]. In the First Grammatical Treatise (12th century) we find, "sá...
Saellir I have been shown this in a letter from a Norwegian friend, who whilst on holiday in Norway became the fortunate recipient of a Thor's Hammer, solid...
Great! Thank you *so* much! I think I'm even more excited about this than my writer friend is. I did one term of ON at university (many years ago). Now it's...
Elizabeth Shipley
e_shipley@...
Aug 15, 2005 8:34 pm
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It MIGHT be some combination of words wielded together, though there is no repeating of letters. I’m thinking it more likely a “magical formulaâ€. Or it ...
Btw, it’s possible that what your friend thought was Isa, is actually a separator line. Usually though, dots were used to separate sentences. Stacey _____ It...
A friend wants to know how is "Stýrimaðr" pronounced? He is trying to chose his Viking name. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Loren/Lodin A friend...
... this than my ... ago). Now ... of "rist-" that ... Okay, I´ve been advised that these endings I proposed aren´t so convincing as Norse names after all,...
Perhaps I explained myself but poorly, what I believe my Friend wanted to know, was did they have a meaning when written like that, I wondered if it was a way...
... to chose his Viking name. Any help would be appreciated. http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm In reconstructed ON pronunciation, something like...
Hi Patricia, In that case, sorry, I don't know. Ll.N. ... wanted to know, was did they have a meaning when written like that, I wondered if it was a way for...
... trying ... That is to say, the main and secondary stresses on the 1st and 3rd syllables, as before, but with a fourth unstressed syllable at the end....
Wow, much thanks to Llama Nom for digging up so much information. I will make the due corrections on my webpages. Interesting to discover that in the names of...
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