#Herjann

[thorraborinn]

okay okay you got me i'll bite what is martin syrett's etymology of óðinn and how does the new finding support it. if you wanna.

So I gotta warn you this is kind of really niche and after taking a closer look I'm not actually sure the bracteate is evidence of this after all. I'm gonna try to hit the most important points but I'm skipping over lots of details.

In standard notation for transliterating Scandinavian runic inscriptions, you use square brackets [ ] to fill in runes that can be inferred but not directly read, usually by damage. Krister Vasshus has been transliterating this wod[i]nas, but in retrospect we might have to wait for their full paper to know how confident he is in that [i]. Here's the wod[i]nas, cropped and mirrored:

There is room for an i rune (and importantly, not for an a rune) but I'm not sure if Vasshus thinks it was actually there and got damaged or if the maker just left it out (which happens). I left that comment in the notes on the assumption that it was there originally. I can see a faint ᛁ-shaped darkness where it should be but I also admit that I really, really want to see it and that's not a great situation and I should be waiting for Vasshus to go into more detail.

Anyway, people are probably familiar with the idea that Óðinn's name was, at an earlier level of development of the language, *Wōdanaz. This is based on forms like OE Wōden and OHG Wuodan, but not on Óðinn, because there are some phonological problems. If *Wōdanaz had passed down into Norse unmodified, it would be *Óðann (supposedly attested in OSw. ōþansdagher 'Wednesday'). If, on the other hand, it had been *Wōdinaz, that would trigger umlaut, and the Norse would be *Ǿðinn (also supposedly attested in OSw. ǿþinsdagher).

Óðinn has long been recognized as an example of a word composed by means of what's called the Herrshersuffix (roughly 'ruler-suffix'; the term is usually attributed to Wolfgang Meid who wrote a detailed essay on it in the 30's but I'm not sure he actually used the term and actually went to great lengths to avoid giving it that precise a meaning). It's found in a lot of Indo-European languages and works something like this: to make a name of a ruler, representative, or possessor or some word, take that base word's stem, lengthen the stem vowel, add *-n-, and add the masculine or feminine a-stem ending. To get a Lithuanian god of oaks, you take a word for oak (PIE *perkus), lengthen the vowel: *perkū- and add *n-as: Perkūnas. This is a brutally oversimplified version. Germanic and Celtic normally skip the vowel-lengthening step (what that really means is they kept making new ones after some Indo-European phonological features were lost).

Other examples in Germanic languages include *druhtinaz 'lord' (ON dróttinn, OE dryhten) from *druhtiz 'troop'; ON þjóðann 'ruler' from þjóð 'people, nation'; ON Herjann (a name of Óðinn, but literally 'army-leader') from herr 'army'; and others.

Meanwhile, there is pretty much the same problem with all of the preterite participles in Old Norse. The participle ending is -inn, and already was in the Elder Futhark period (faikinaʀ, haitinaʀ, slaginaʀ all attested) but does not cause umlaut (which it "should" according to everything else we know about the phonological development of Norse); and the Proto-Germanic reconstructed participle ending is *-anaz. Despite the ending -inn, many of those words even show signs of having had an *a there in the past (can explain on request).

Trying to resolve this has been kind of an ongoing argument for like a hundred years, it's not especially consequential but it's one of those things where it's weird that it hasn't been put to rest.

Syrett's proposed solution was that the participle ending was completely replaced, and the Herrschersuffix partially, by a similar but different suffix that also already existed in the language. Words like gullinn 'golden' and eikinn 'oaken' are formed with a suffix reconstructed *-īnaz and which belongs to a class of suffixes that behave a little bit more like words in compound words, meaning a different set of phonological rules applies. The word gullinn doesn't have umlaut in Old West Norse (would be *gyllinn; this works differently and unevenly in East Norse, e.g. Danish gylden, but it's also in Old Swedish that *Œðinn is supposedly found alongside *Óðann).

Meanwhile, the word wodinʀ is already attested on the inscription Sö Fv2011;307 but it's highly lacking in context and a lot of people have not counted it as a pre-Norse attestation of Óðinn, or at least not as a secure one, though it is exactly what would be predicted by Syrett's theory. Even if it is accepted, the new find is significantly older, so the new one is still important.

I'm invested in all of this because it's kind of implicated in a load-bearing pillar of my MA thesis.

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[artofarklin]

Hey, I love your art and really want to get some of your prints for my study. But I was wondering what the text in the "Knotwork Odin" picture means, the one inspired by the Book of Kells. I can read the runes, but from what I can see it seems to be either Old Norse or Icelandic, both of which I don't speak (yet! Working on that). So I was wondering if you'd be willing to share what it says.

Hey! Thank you so much!

I certainly can tell you (providing my memory hasnt failed 😂)! It's stanza 46-48 of the grimnismal in old norse! One of the stanzas where odin lists his names!

46. Grim is my name, | Gangleri am 1,

Herjan and Hjalmberi,

Thekk and Thrithi, | Thuth and Uth,

Helblindi and Hor;

47. Sath and Svipal | and Sanngetal,

Herteit and Hnikar,

Bileyg, Baleyg, | Bolverk, Fjolnir, Grim and Grimnir, | Glapsvith, Fjolsvith.

48. Sithhott, Sithskegg, | Sigfather, Hnikuth,

Allfather, Valfather, | Atrith, Farmatyr:

A single name | have I never had

Since first among men I fared.

46. Hétumk Grímr, hétumk Gangleri,

Herjann ok Hjalmberi,

Þekkr ok Þriði,

Þundr ok Uðr, Herblindi ok Hár.

47. Saðr ok Svipall ok Sanngetall,

Herteitr ok Hnikarr,

Bileygr, Báleygr,

Bölverkr, Fjölnir, Grímr ok Grímnir,

Glapsviðr ok Fjölsviðr;

48. Síðhöttr, Síðskeggr, Sigföðr, Hnikuðr,

Alföðr, Valföðr, Atríðr ok Farmatýr;

einu nafni hétumk aldregi,

síz ek með folkum fór.

[koufax73]

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Jack Adamant: “Assoluzione” è il nuovo singolo

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Nuovo singolo (stavolta in italiano) per Jack Adamant, che con Assoluzione sperimenta una collaborazione col vocalist Stephan Lauzen e il chitarrista Herjann Svolnir.

Stephan Lauzen è stato attivo nella scena metal di Cagliari. Una volta trasferitosi a Stoccolma, è entrato a far parte della black metal band Effess ed è attualmente…

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