On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:12:11PM -0800, Teja Johnson-Lewis wrote:
>
> Hi ya, everybody in the norse course groups!
>
> Now, I'm not going to sit here and delete messages that I don't
> understand. All this stuff is very brilliant and all, BUT I just
> don't get it. I think all the people like me are in hiding, scared
> to feel silly, but then again...what do you think I am??
Certainly much of the material that's been posted recently is not
suitable for beginners. The only solution to that, however, would
be for beginners to do more posting.
> All you people like Erin (not trying to pick on you!) who are lurking,
> think of anything to say. We have the linguists, but I'm more into
> mythology and the poems and stories. The language is cool, too, but
> it's just way over my head.
No. This is a _language_ list, not a mythology list. The mythology
is only relevant in a context of language translation.
Yes, I'm speaking as a moderator here.
> Consider all this, please.
>
> And now, I ask a question: my favorite character from the myths, Loki,
> poses a lot of questions.
[several questions snipped]
Postings responding to this will be refused by the moderators, unless
they are either in a Scandinavian language (whereupon they count as
language practice) or directly address sources and their translation.
> Also: Sigyn means "victory-giver": why???!!!!
This is a language question, or can reasonably be addressed as one.
Off the top of my head, "Sig" is a common element in words related
to victory; I don't know how one would get "giver" from "gyn", but
of course I'm looking at the name in conventional English spelling,
not the norse version. (I'm also pretty much a language amateur;
this may be obvious to many other list memebers.)
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Arlie
(Arlie Stephens arlie@...)