Hello everyone,

I'm a beginning student of Old Norse. I'm wondering if there's a Norse word that
has roughly the same semantic domain as English "end", in the sense of "death".
That is, an indirect word for "death" that might also be used for other kinds
of finishing/completion/stopping, eg., the "end" of a story.

Does the ON word for "end" have the same connotations as the English one? If
not, can anyone tell me which ON word might be the closest translation of
English "end", (as in, "so he met his end"?)

Thanks! :)

-elizabeth


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Elizabeth Shipley
Linguistics, UCSB