From: llama_nom
Message: 7333
Date: 2006-10-14
>
> Possible a better ON form would be "rýnstr".
> At least it "feels" better ...
>
> E.
>
>
> --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The runic inscription mentioned in these notes, which claims to have
> > been written with Gaukr Trandilsson's axe, is in Gordon:
> Introduction
> > to Old Norse 185-186, notes 259-260. The date of the Maeshowe
> > inscriptions is given as 1152-3. It's set out as poetry in Gordon's
> > transcription, although alliteration is missing in the third
> > half-line. You can find a drawing of the runes here [
> > http://www.arild-hauge.com/vesterhavsruner.htm#ORKENOYENE ]. The
> > first two words are written using the cryptic 'kvistrúnar'
> > "twig-runes", as is the 'm' of 'maðr', which are encoded thus:
> >
> > tbmly = 1:1, 1:2, etc.
> > hnias = 2:1, etc.
> > fuþork = 3:1, etc.
> >
> > þisar runar rist sa maþr er runstr er fyrir uæstan haf mæþ þæiri
> øhse
> > er ato køukr trænils sonr fyrir sunan lant
> >
> > þessar rúnar reist sá maðr
> > er rúnstr er fyrir vestan haf
> > með þeiri øxi er átti Gaukr
> > Trandils sonr fyrir sunnan land.
> >
> > These runes that man cut who was most skilled in rune-craft west
> over
> > sea with that axe which Gauk Trandil's son in the south (of Iceland)
> > owned.
> >
> > Some more on the Maeshowe runes [
> > http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/maeshrunes.htm ].
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This email message is a notification to let you know that
> > > a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the norse_course
> > > group.
> > >
> > > File : /Njála/nfamily.jpg
> > > Uploaded by : eysteinnb <eysteinn@>
> > > Description : Njáll's family / connections
> > >
> > > You can access this file at the URL:
> > >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norse_course/files/Nj%80%A0%A0%
> E1la/nfamily.jpg
> >
> > >
> > > To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit:
> > > http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/files
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > eysteinnb <eysteinn@>
> > >
> >
>