<<<(I'm showing my obsessiveness, sorry)>>>
 
May I offer my two pence here Meghan I personally would never apologise
for showing an obsession - I have too many here
Just a thought - a sword called Bastard - might be a good name
There is a saying - it goes back to when the Hebrews were being
bullied by the Babylonians and the Jewish Language was being written
the saying is "There is no one so BOLD as a Bastard"
I wonder if the Norse Folk also had this saying - the sword would be
a Bold Sword
Greetings Grace - I am not entering into the  discussion  just dropping my
Two Pence into the Sunday collection
Kveðja
Patricia
 
-------Original Message-------
 
Date: 08/07/2007 10:46:53
Subject: Re: [norse_course] more shoe stuff
 

Aha!
 
Ok, that's making me much happier...  Two shoes made of legs makes... well, more than one :)
 
Where is the tradition from? 
 
Also, I failed to find "skua" before.  Oops.  Not always so bright, me.
 
The red cloak seems significant by itself.  Similar things keep getting given as gifts along with stuff like gold rings in my recent searching.  Also the named sword seems to suggest maybe not quite opulence, but at least nice dress.
 
(I'm showing my obsessiveness, sorry)
& thanks again.
-Unnr

 
On 07/07/07, Fred and Grace Hatton <hatton@...> wrote:

I don't think he is wearing particularly opulent garb.

Sigurður jarl hafði brúnaðan kyrtil og rauða skikkju og drepið upp
skautunum, fitskúa á fótum. Hann hafði skjöld og sverð er Bastarður var
kallað.
(Magnus saga erlingssonar, ch 13, quoted from Snerpa.is)

"He had a brown colored shirt and red cloak and (with) the skirt (of the
cloak) tucked up, shoes (skúa) made of "fit" on his feet." He had a shield
and a sword which was called Bastard."

Cleasby Vigfusson give hemingr as a synonym for fit: the skin of the shanks
of a hide. There was a tradition of sealing an adoption by having the
adopted son and nearest heirs put their feet into a shoe made from the right
leg of a three year old ox to seal the adoption.

Grace
Fred and Grace Hatton
Hawley Pa




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