--- In norse_course@egroups.com, Deep Stream <DeepStream@...> wrote:

> As long as we're on the subject (please feel free
> to ignore if I'm getting too far ahead).
>
> --- Óskar Guðlaugsson <hr_oskar@...>
> wrote:
> > heilir ...to a group of men
> > heilar ...to a group of women
> > heil ...to a mixed group
> >
> > and perhaps least useful, but conceivable,
> >
> > heilt ...to a "neuter", perhaps an animal

I can think of at least one "feasible" use of "Heilt" as a greeting.
Considering that the word _goð_ 'deity' is neuter, would this
invocation be correct grammatically?

Heilt, veraldar goð! Heilt, blótgoð Svía!

Yes, the logical gender and the grammatical gender are different here
<g>; but mangled Old Norse still bothers me enough to ask.


Ingeborg S. Nordén
(ingwibergo@...)


P.S. DeepStream, I've missed corresponding with you about the runes
and other Germanic linguistic subjects. Please write when you have
time available.