its always interested me how modern people want to go online and instantly consume all the information about the Old Norse Religion they can and try to rationalize it all in one big chunk.... whereas people at the time would have grown up within a religion that probably gave them more tidbits and a slowdrip of stories and reflections on how to rationalize it. sort of like if you binge watched all the James Bond movies at once, and tried to make sense of what a Bond Movie is, versus having occasionally watched Bond movies over the years as they are released and slowly experiencing the shift from the 60s to present and being involved in the fandom and its change over time.
Culture is generally described as learned behavior passed down to the next generation but what really distinguishes it is how difficult it is to recognize culture from the inside. We generally only see it when contrasted against a different culture. Even the most knowledgeable scholar just can't know what it's like to have grown up in a culture surrounded by others who share it. It's not knowable.
Got a couple of nearby mound and stone circle monuments named after "Rane/Hrani" some say to be a name of Odin too, together along a local concentration of normal Odin- placenames.
In german there is "Grimmasse". The wiki entry says this: Als Grimasse bezeichnet man den absichtlich merkwürdigen - skurrilen, komischen oder hässlichen - Gesichtsausdruck. Das Wort wurde im 17. Jahrhundert aus dem gleichbedeutenden französischen grimace entlehnt. Diesem liegt vermutlich ein germanisches Wort für „Maske“ (althochdeutsch grīmo, altenglisch grīma, altisländisch gríma) zugrunde. Google translation: A grimace is the intentionally strange - bizarre, funny or ugly - facial expression. The word was borrowed in the 17th century from the synonymous French grimace. This is probably based on a Germanic word for “mask” (Old High German grīmo, Old English grīma, Old Icelandic gríma). If i go to the english wiki from there, instead of google translate, i get "gurn" and "chuck"
One idea is, if we picture the world tree as a worlds map with ordinal directions (8) and remember that "áttir" both means ordinal directions and "8" in icelandic and then think of Sleipnir, Óðins "drösull" (horse) with his 8 legs.
This made me think of a ljóðahattr poem I recently (ish) wrote about Odin, a large part of which is just different names of Odin. Definitely a "skaldic life hack" if you need to up the word count of your old norse poetry 😂
Concerning the way the accented vowels in standardized Norse spelling are pronounced, I realized that the acute accent is used the same way as the circumflex accent in French: á is pronounced very similarly to â, in French. Similarly, ó sounds very much like French ô, and í is pronounced like French î.
In Belgian french there is indeed a phonemic length difference mostly orthographically representing the long vowels with a circumflex (as they result from historical deletion of a following s’).
@@beepboop204 French in general, not just the French spoken in France. Pronunciation will of course vary somewhat according to geography, but the use of ^ in written French is intended to mark long vowels. But as you point out, some francophone Montrealers will pronounce 'garage' as 'gârâge'... ;)
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2:41 A kenning in Old Norse for the gallows was "Horse-of-the-hanged" so "Yggdrasil" may mean "Odin's Gallows" referencing him hanging himself from it
Arranger/Orderer of Death would be fitting for him, given how many times he does that in stories
Helblindi is a pretty interesting name, just like pretty much all of Odin's names.
its always interested me how modern people want to go online and instantly consume all the information about the Old Norse Religion they can and try to rationalize it all in one big chunk....
whereas people at the time would have grown up within a religion that probably gave them more tidbits and a slowdrip of stories and reflections on how to rationalize it.
sort of like if you binge watched all the James Bond movies at once, and tried to make sense of what a Bond Movie is, versus having occasionally watched Bond movies over the years as they are released and slowly experiencing the shift from the 60s to present and being involved in the fandom and its change over time.
Culture is generally described as learned behavior passed down to the next generation but what really distinguishes it is how difficult it is to recognize culture from the inside. We generally only see it when contrasted against a different culture.
Even the most knowledgeable scholar just can't know what it's like to have grown up in a culture surrounded by others who share it. It's not knowable.
Got a couple of nearby mound and stone circle monuments named after "Rane/Hrani" some say to be a name of Odin too, together along a local concentration of normal Odin- placenames.
Hello Dr. Crawford! Could you please do a video on the words for Norse farming tools? Scythes, rakes, pitchforks, etc? Thank you!
In german there is "Grimmasse".
The wiki entry says this:
Als Grimasse bezeichnet man den absichtlich merkwürdigen - skurrilen, komischen oder hässlichen - Gesichtsausdruck.
Das Wort wurde im 17. Jahrhundert aus dem gleichbedeutenden französischen grimace entlehnt. Diesem liegt vermutlich ein germanisches Wort für „Maske“ (althochdeutsch grīmo, altenglisch grīma, altisländisch gríma) zugrunde.
Google translation:
A grimace is the intentionally strange - bizarre, funny or ugly - facial expression.
The word was borrowed in the 17th century from the synonymous French grimace.
This is probably based on a Germanic word for “mask” (Old High German grīmo, Old English grīma, Old Icelandic gríma).
If i go to the english wiki from there, instead of google translate, i get "gurn" and "chuck"
The darkness of Odins eye sees us all. Thanks for the knowledge, Mr. Crawford.
"Yggdrasil Askr" meaning "Odin-Horse Tree" makes me wonder if it means "Tree Odin's Horse is tied to"
Untrustworthy is also one name I would use for tricky one eye
One idea is, if we picture the world tree as a worlds map with ordinal directions (8) and remember that "áttir" both means ordinal directions and "8" in icelandic and then think of Sleipnir, Óðins "drösull" (horse) with his 8 legs.
This made me think of a ljóðahattr poem I recently (ish) wrote about Odin, a large part of which is just different names of Odin. Definitely a "skaldic life hack" if you need to up the word count of your old norse poetry 😂
Concerning the way the accented vowels in standardized Norse spelling are pronounced, I realized that the acute accent is used the same way as the circumflex accent in French: á is pronounced very similarly to â, in French. Similarly, ó sounds very much like French ô, and í is pronounced like French î.
France French? some of our Canadian French can get wild 😉
In Belgian french there is indeed a phonemic length difference mostly orthographically representing the long vowels with a circumflex (as they result from historical deletion of a following s’).
@@beepboop204 French in general, not just the French spoken in France. Pronunciation will of course vary somewhat according to geography, but the use of ^ in written French is intended to mark long vowels. But as you point out, some francophone Montrealers will pronounce 'garage' as 'gârâge'... ;)
Interesting that "hel" could mean half. In Danish it means whole. Helblind would mean totally blind.
Yeah but if you think about it hel and halv are kind of close
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Dr. Crawford, I love your channel. Just LOVE it! But the association with Grimfrost is not doing you any good. They have reviews turned off on their FB page for a reason. Thank you for your awesome, thought-provoking, superbly-researched content! ❤
Yggdrasil=Oden's horse=he hung in, or rode the Ash tree like a horse(?) for night days. Just a thought...
The Rearranger. The Orderer. The All-Folder.
What about wholly blind, tho. Also, Furtherer, as in messenger, leader.
Isn't ko-fi pronounced "coffee". Honest question. I know Jackson has some linguistic quirks but I want to know if I'm saying it wrong.
But if you say 'coffee' people might not know what you're talking about.
Nice pin, have one just like it on my hat.
@AlpineThomas I think I found it on etsy...
@AlpineThomas type in for your search, Huginn and Muninn Odin's Ravens lapel pin, should take you right to it...
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Didn't the ancient Irish claim to be the children of The Hidden One?