----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 3:37
PM
Subject: Re: [norse_course] Re: nonsense
schmonsense
In a message dated
3/8/02 1:50:33 AM Pacific Standard Time, rainbowskymann@...
writes:
Do you know how the pre-modern Old Norse speakers
treated
unfamiliar objects? That is, when they
encountered something for the
first time, did
they tend to create new names, or would they
adopt
the names used by the people who
introduced them to the
thing?
others can probably answer this better than
I, but from botanical nomenclature it's amazing how many unrelated and
sometimes dissimilar in appearance plants have the same name accross Europe
and Scandinavia<G>..
Most not as famous as
Yggdrasill<G>..
FriðR,
Pat.
Sumir
hafa kvæði...
...aðrir spakmæli.
- Keth
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