Guoðan aftan, Okär!

"But how did the word for the heathen gods survive at all in daily
speech in Dalska?
"

In place names and related words, of course (such as 'ôska', meaning
thunderstorm)!
At home in Central Jamtland, e.g., we have a site called 'Ås', since
it was an important religious place in the heathen time. We don't
pronunce it with a nasalized 'å', though.

/I, a.k.a Arnljuter


--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Haukur Thorgeirsson
<haukurth@...> wrote:

> > 'ôs' - Proto-Germanic 'ansuz',
>
> Interesting. But how did the word for the heathen gods
> survive at all in daily speech in Dalska?
>
> Kveðja,
> Haukur