Re: More Pliny's "Guthalvs"

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> >
> I have one problem with that: What would those people cast iron

for?

> All iron then was wrought iron, it passed through the hands of a
> smith. I suspect the meaning "cast" is late, it is used today in

that

> sense in German and Swedish (both nations with plenty of iron ore);
> in Danish (we have no iron ore except low grade stuff found in
> bogs) /gyde/ means "spawn" (of fish) and nothing else
> (except /udgyde/ "pour forth" -> "talk nonsense").
>

I was too hasty; Falk & Torp says "in old Danish also 'cast'"

> Torsten