--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Elizabeth Shipley
<e_shipley@...> wrote:

> Great! Thank you *so* much! I think I'm even more excited about

this than my

> writer friend is. I did one term of ON at university (many years

ago). Now

> it's clearly time for me to get back to it. :)
>
> Can you tell me what the difference is among the various forms

of "rist-" that

> you mention? -risti, -ristnir, -ristir, -rista?

Okay, I´ve been advised that these endings I proposed aren´t so
convincing as Norse names after all, so we may have to go back to
the drawing board on this one. Sorry about that. But no need to
abandon the enthusiasm yet. A rather neat alternative that´s been
suggested to me is Söguloki, or Sögu-Loki. The first part means "of
story", the second contains the root 'lok' that I
mentioned. 'sögulok' is "the end of a story". Sögu-Loki might
mean "one who brings the story to an end/close." This also has the
advantage of being a genuine attested name, that of the god Loki,
notorious for his role in bringing about the end of the word, and
the giant Útgarða-Loki.

Llama Nom