Re: Saxon wanum "bright"

Marco wrote:

>Probably the word is part of the lexicon of the
>"Heliand" or of the "Muspilli".
>There's somebody here that knows these two works?

In Bibliotheca Augustana (Augsburg, Bavaria):

Muspilli (c. 870)
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chrono
logie/09Jh/Muspilli/mus_frag.html

Heliand (c. 830)
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chrono
logie/09Jh/Heliand/hel_intr.html
inter alia, the Kessler edition:
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~bkessler/OS-Heliand/

I for one know only ... ben zi bena, bluot zi bluoda,
lid zi geliden as well as, in the Carolingian OHG,
gib mir min swerda & dine naso in hundes arso. :-))

George