Wow! THE Kiyo? With the incredible website?

What a great resource!

Thank you so much for your work!

Larry Miller



kiyo9tails wrote:

> Wow, much thanks to Llama Nom for digging up so much information.
> I will make the due corrections on my webpages.
>
> Interesting to discover that in the names of Turpin's
> sword, "Almacia" [ON] and "Almace" [OF],
> the "c" was pronounced similarly as [ts] in both Old Norse
> and Old French.
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> This does put into question my hazarded guess that "Almace" might be
> cognate with the English word "alms" which has the following
> etymology:
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> [..OE aelmysse ON almusa OFris ielmisse OHG alamuosan MHG
> almuosen .. from common OTeut *alemosna or *alemosina a. Vulg. Lat.
> *alimosina , LL eleemosyna, Gk
> ἐλεημοσύνη
> "compassionateness,
> mercy".]
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> I was vaguely aware that "ce" in Old English was pronounced "che" or
> [tS-e] because I listened to a recording of the poem "Deor" in which
> there occurs the line "Eormanrices" = "Ermanaric's"; Ermanaric being
> of course Jörmunrekr of the Eddas and the Volsunga saga.
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> Ole Worm is a figure who I came across as a collector of Faroese
> folktales. I think I read that he owned a natural history museum and
> also published an extensive catalog of runic inscriptions around
> Scandinavia, though I'm not much familiar with runestones and the
> like.
>
> Thanks again for your help,
> Kiyo
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