I agree with the fact that AMLÁIB is not Old Norse. But it may be
Proto-Norse. Indeed, Old Norse ÓLÁFR comes from Proto-Norse
ANULAIBAZ. In accusative we have ANULAIB. This resembles AMLÁIB,
doesn't it? If AMLÁIB - or more conveniently written AMLAIBAZ, was
Proto-Norse, the Old Norse version would be AMLEIFR, I think. I don't
know what the prefix AM- should refer to, though.
If the prefix AM- should really be ARN- (note that 'm' and 'rn' can
be mixed up in some fonts), the Proto-Norse name is ARNLAIBAZ, which,
of course, becomes ARNLEIFR in Old Norse.
It should be notes that often the Proto-Norse diphtong AI became Á,
which explains why the Proto-Norse suffices -LAIBAZ, -LAIKAZ etc.
became -LÁFR, -LÁKR etc. in ÓLÁFR, ÞORLÁKR etc.
One question about Irish: Exactly what does the acute accent ´ mean?
In what sense do AMLÁIB and *AMLAIB differ?
Sjul ('Victory guardian')
--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Bray <dbray@...> wrote:
Heill Simon,
Well, the piece you´re reading is wrong. Amláib is not Norse, but
an Old
Irish approximation of the Norse name Óláfr. In Modern Irish it
would be
spelled Amhláibh, and a very crude rendering into English
pronunciation
would be "Owlahv".
Kveðja,
Dan
simonfittonbrown@... wrote:
Hi,
Apparently this is another name for Óláfr inn hvíti.
According to the piece I'm reading, it says it's Norse, but it
doesn't
look very Norse to me, and would seem to be completely devoid of
meaning in Old Norse.
Or is it?
All the best,
Simon
--
Daniel Bray
dbray@...
School of Studies in Religion A20
University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe." H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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