The whole community is gathered for a feast. No one is exempt. The heads and blood of the victims are given to the gods, and the decapitated bodies are hung and drained of blood. In practical terms, the same process is used to slaughter animals for eating. These pictures of a modern s...
The rune ár was used for a and á in all other positions (but sometimes for /ã/, too). 3.3. Use of either nauð rune or nothing for n; maðr rune or nothing for m All the other nasalized vowels did not have special runes for them, so whenever you have a group of vowel...
the meaning of the name was not important in choosing a name for a child. As has already been discussed, the use of a family name belonging to an ancestor was the most important factor for the Viking Age practice of naming.
N A39 $M §A Eilífr the Worthy owns me. We two, Steingrímr and I, have spoken much between ourselves for the reason that I want take/learn runes of it. §B ... ..., I ask you: do you want to marry me, one of these these: mistletoe, ploughshare, 'tistill', 'histill',...
26 In this context, it is surprising that the historical custom of erecting rune stones for com-memoration is hardly reflected in the literature. This may be due to the fact that many of these stones were erected in Sweden, whereas the “canonic” literature explored here originated from the...
4540Short inscriptions on Swedish rune stones dating from the tenth and eleventh century, refer tojourneys to Jerusalem, see Rune Edberg,“Spår efter en tidlig Jerusalemfärd,”Fornvännen101(2006): 343. For an overview of the Scandinavian pilgrimage tradition, see Christian Krötzl,Pilger,...