From: Haukur Þorgeirsson
Message: 5473
Date: 2005-08-13
> I'm a beginning student of Old Norse.Well, there are these lines in Ynglingatal:
> 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"?)