The Saga of the Volsungs, Part 4 (Betrayals)
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Part 4 of a new summary and brief commentary on The Saga of the Volsungs in 6 parts. This video covers roughly chapters 22-32.
Dr. Jackson Crawford is Instructor of Nordic Studies and Nordic Program Coordinator at the University of Colorado Boulder (formerly UC Berkeley and UCLA). He is a historical linguist and an experienced teacher of Old Norse, Modern Icelandic, and Norwegian.
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The only constant in my life are Dr. Crawford’s uploads and for that I am forever grateful.
I like to imagine that Dr. Crawford walks the entire trail and then shoots the video
"Little daddy" that made me laugh so damn hard, omg. Excellent video as always.
Being given a lecture on Old Norse language in the middle of the wilderness. If that's not how education should be, I don't know what is.
thank yew. great yarns. gives us some insight into the workings and values of their minds. take care dr crawford
It's always the ones with "little" in the name that turn out monsters. Great summary.
Lol yeah Jack Rackam pointed out Caligula means 'Bootsie', didn't recall if I heard that years ago or not.
Thank you Professor Crawford
Best video series on the channel as of yet!
That's a really nice jacket.
Kalim AlFadil Must be a Brown Coat
Thank you. 🌞
“I’ve got your son” 😭😭😭
Did you notice the Rapunzel story embedded in this saga?
You need Wagner's music as a soundtrack ;)
Hello! I am doing research on my last name, to find the origins of my last name. I recently found out that my last name derives from the old norse word "Grimhidlr" then I did some digging and round and found the Volsungs Saga and Grimhild or Grimhilde. I have done an Ancestry test, not sure how much I trust that, but I am predominantly British & Scandinavian. This is pretty awesome, not sure if it has anything at all to do with the origins of my last name but great videos, I also read the story. Do you think it's possible my last name derives from this story somehow?
This comment isn't about this video in particular, but I'm somewhat confused by the pronunciation of ON . In your videos I think I hear it as /ɔj/ (but seeing as, from what I can see, it's usually reconstructed as /ɐʏ̯/ that could just be my ears) and I'm wondering what it is that makes us not just take the spelling at face value and read it as /eʏ̯/ (or possibly /e̯ʏ/ but given the later reflexes I understand why that'd be improbably). It's not just ON that seems to do this somewhat eccentric spelling of their diphthongs though because OE is (from what I've read) usually reconstructed as /æɑ̯/ rather than /eɑ̯/. It seems odd because otherwise both systems appear reasonably phonemic so I was wondering if you had some insight
Are these chapters in your book?
How does 'Attila' get changed to 'Atli?' Why does the 'il' sound swap to a 'li' sound?
A bit of a delayed response, but in case you're still wondering this is due to a fairly common phenomenon called metathesis. Metathesis is a sound change in which the positioning of letters/phonemes in a word switch positions. This has been observed in languages across the globe. For a few English examples, "burn" comes from Proto-Germanic "brinnaną", "bright" from "berhtaz", and "thirteen" comes from Old English "þreotiene/þreotene". Some examples in other languages: French "fromage" (cheese) comes from Latin "formaticus", Spanish "palabra" (word) comes from Latin "parabola", and the equivalent of "cross" in many Nordic languages/dialects is "kors" (from Latin "crux"). It's just one of the many ways words change over time, kind of like a long game of Telephone. By the way, in the Nibelungenlied Attila is called Etzel
So, "Atilla" = "Daddy-o"...
How is it that the Norse practiced a pretty intense form of monogamy when most of their other Indo-European relatives seemed pretty fine with both monogamy and polygamy?
Nine Norse Virtues, is all I can think of to say.
Possibly editing by those who told the stories after the spread of Christianity. The versions we have are all after that. 🤷🏼♀️
Not sure since I suspect 'harems' are more for upper class folks but I've heard among Nordic people, they do have allowance for multiple wives if you can keep them happy.
Combine this with the way their women were/are and their law about a divorce - I've heard it can include.. if neighbors hear complaint about bed room performance from the front step, or enough guests hear enough of the griping, she can divorce with half or more than half the holding/s.
So, yeah.. seems like an oddly 'folk' law to me too. If the neighbors can vouch she complains, case closed. Wouldn't want to perturb your wive/s... blend in this very murderous jealousy and women-warriors, grounds for good commitment behavior?
Though I also recall reading the Franks were the most polygamous (including on the Nibelung topic) but notable ones turned away from it. Visigoths and some others were also Arian Christian during "that time" (correlations and the topic of Burgundians, Goths and Franks, some were heathen but a lot of them were kinds of Christian.)
@@paulacassidy9993 doubtful, the Roman historian Tacitus in the 1st century AD (definitely not a Christian) made note of how unusually monogamous the Germans were
@@saxogatley1166 Thanks for the correction, worth looking into.