--- On Fri, 12/5/08, llama_nom <600cell@...> wrote:

From: llama_nom <600cell@...>
Subject: [norse_course] Re: translation of reik félag
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Received: Friday, December 5, 2008, 8:24 PM

Cleasby/Vigfússon has: "reik, n. a wandering, strolling; vera á reiki:
wavering; 2) the phrase vera vel, illa til reika: to be in a good, bad
condition." (And see the following entries for related words.)
http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/png/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0490.png
http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/png/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0491.png

Fritzner has: "reik, n. 1) Bevægelse frem og tilbage, udenbestemt Maal
eller Bestemmelse, Vaklen; 2) Besindende, Tilstand, Stilling" (1)
Movement backwards and forwards, uncertain goal or purpose, wavering;
2) composure, state/condition, position).
http://www.edd.uio.no/perl/search/search.cgi?appid=86&tabid=1275

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "ulfharaldsen"
<ulfharaldsen@...>
wrote:
>
> Heil!
> I belong to a norse culture recreation society called Reik Félag. One 
> of our members came up with the name some time ago after he did some 
> research. When we wanted a norse name for our group we wanted it to 
> mean something like, "travelling fellowship" or "wandering
partnership" 
> or something along those lines, basically, to describe that we move 
> around and we are a goup of merchants, craftsmen, warriors and women 
> and children not part of some Jarl's entourage. 
> Anyway, during my studies of ON (and I'm just beginning) I have not 
> been able to find the word "reik" anywhere. I have found
"félag" 
> meaning "partnership" in an ON-english dictionary I found
online.
> So, my question, in a nutshell, is our name correct? Suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Doug (Ulf)
> www.reikfelag.net
> www.reikfelag.org
>



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