Rudolf, the Red nosed (reindeer?)
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Behalf Of Brian M. Scott
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:42 AM
To: Sygyrd Sygyrdson
Subject: Re: [norse_course] álfr
At 3:24:58 PM on Monday, October 7, 2013, Sygyrd Sygyrdson
wrote:
> So on a lighter note, how would you read the following?
> Hróðulfr Rauðnefrinn
In my (fairly extensive) experience, Old Norse bynames that are nouns
virtually never have the definite article; its found only in adjectival
bynames, like <(h)inn rauði> 'the red' and <(h)inn heppni> 'the lucky'.
Thus, the byname would be simply <rauðnefr> 'red-nose'.
Brian
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