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In this adventure we’re going down the rabbit hole and unearthing the origins of the worddown. Downhas various meanings, each of which has different roots. First let’s look atdownthat means ‘from a higher position to a lower one; facing downwards, to knock down; a negative aspect’,...
According to Norse mythology, Æsir and Vanir waged war against each other and eventually merged into one unified group of gods. Beyond those two main groups of gods and goddesses mentioned above, Norse pagans also believe in Jötunn (sometimes loosely translated as ‘giants’), as well as ...
Indeed, the Vikings themselves thought that thesesymbols, that they also used for the mundane such as commerce and politics, carried magical powers. Read on to learn more about the origins of the Nordic runes,the meanings of individual runes, and how the Vikings used the runes. ...
While the meanings of the names would not have influenced which name a Viking Age child was given, modern parents write and ask about names to give to their children today, medieval recreationists using these names for their Viking Age personas care about the meanings of names, and so forth...
Heimdallr had a mixture of meanings, and some of them might have been “radiant,”“world,” or “eminent.” Altogether, his name might have meant something like “radiant world” or maybe even “the one who illuminates the world.”He also had three other names: Gullintanni: this means ...
“to carve”, is the main term used for book writing and in translated literatureoften corresponds to the Latinscribere. Etymologically related toscribereis the OldNorse verbskrífa, which has a broad range of meanings such as “to describe”, “todraw”, “to paint”, or “to write”; ...
Clover. The Druids* of the British Isles regarded clover as sacred, with both good and evil meanings. According to legend, however, St. Patrick later converted the pagan Irish to Christianity by using the three-part clover leaf as an example of the Trinity: God the Father, Son, and Holy...
Moreover, specific terms that today have a more restricted semantic field were broader; for example, many of the compound nouns that have a pejorative meaning today – "Jew-language," "Jew-boy," and so on – were not negatively loaded terms but simply the East Norse words used to ...