From: Tommy Tyrberg
Message: 442
Date: 1999-12-06
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From: Tommy Tyrberg
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 11:30 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Re: SV: Odp: The Gender of the Sun.
As for the existence of a Germanic moon divinity this is apparently not
well attested in literary sources, but there are a number of theophoric
place-names that seem to indicate the existence of a moon-cult. A Swedish
examplel is Tungelunda "The sacred grove of the Moon". The first element
here is Old Norse tungl "moon" (Gothic tuggl, Old Saxon tungal, OHG zungal,
OE tungol). This alternative word for the Moon does not seem to have any
cognates outside Germanic and may be from a pre-IE substrate language.
Tommy Tyrberg
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But in OE tungol means "star", not "moon", and tungolcraeft is
"astrology". I'm pretty sure (though I cannot check it at the moment), that
it also means "star" in some of the other Germanic languages you cite.
Piotr
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Yes, that is true at least of Gothic tuggl. However in North Germanic the
meaning is 'moon'. I just cited the other forms to show that the root is
widespread in germanic. The original meaning may have been "heavenly body
in general".
Tommy Tyrberg
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