It is rismal. Rise and shine, old Sun. We are waking up at ON man.
First, we put on our Serkr and Mottull, since I forgot the other t in
Mottull in my previous post. The English is Mantle, I think, so cape
(ON kapa, long a) was a bad translation. We sit on the edge of the
bed, our feet dangling in front of a bolkr (hooked-o, u-stem, later a-
), which supports our bed. It is cold, and we rise to our feet, walk
through the room, around the bolkr (same, here a low section-wall,
but before a thick wood), our eyes running over the bolkr holding the
roof up in the ceiling (here also a thick timber), and remember that
we meet a man Balki (only the weak attested) on our way to ON man. We
also meet Stori (long o, big - add to physical description), Balli
(also only attested weak, bold), Skalli (same, bald head - add to
physical desc., compare to Kollr, Kolli), a woman Groa (long o,
grower - add to our activities and occupations), a woman Unnr (older
Udr, weak Unna, beloved), a man Kjali (only attested weak, from
Kjolr, keel, and compare our host's boats, which we saw yesterday),
and an Onidingr (long o, i, Unnithing - add to negative prefix).
Hungry, we come to the arinn, the flat and wide stone on which the
fire burns, over which we saw the Ketill hanging from a Krokr
yesterday. Arinn is the hearth, on brandar burn on it. In ON, we have
attested Thorarinn and Thorarna, masc. and fem.. Both are compounds
from the ancient names *Arinn and *Arna, Arna here not to be confused
with the weak fem. Arna from weak masc. Arni from strong Orn, eagle.
The confusion is due to linguistic loss in ON. ON man was named after
every word for a rock, as we shall see, and the sacred hearth-rock
was no more of an exception that the things on or above it. In Proto-
Norse we have attested 'that azina...', where the word occurs in the
neut. about the memorial rock, beside inscriptions with Halliz,
Stainaz, etc.. The fire has gone out, and we are cold, standing in
our Serkr and Mottull as our host, Lokarr, uses his Eldjarn (lighter)
to start the fire (technicall a compound-name, we include it under
tools). Warmed, we go to the board to eat, but are first shown to the
laug, the bath. Our specimen was the hygiene-fanatic of his time, and
famous for leaving his combs in museums all over Europe, and wider.
He also had a set of hygiene-tools on a ring, an ear-spoon for wax, a
tweezer for evening his eye-brows, a razor for shaving and shaping
his beard, a tooth-pick, a nail-file, etc. - examples survive, some
still hanging on their rings). I have not found named men after these
items, but suspect that they existed. We take a bath in the laug, and
note that a host of women's name compound with -laug in ON, and that
a masc. -laugr was modelled on it (the word is fem.). Hungrier still,
we go back to the board, and wait for the food. We get meat, cut into
strips with a Knifr (long i, name attested in Late Swedish), and
served in an Askr, an ashen box-bowl with a lid on it, from which ON
man ate his food (masc. name here, but see trees also when we leave
the house; eskja, fem., attested for the same, and we reconstruct
*Eskja, a fine woman's name). We drink *Veig from a Bolli, a bowl,
and note that ON women's names compound with -veig, drink or power,
originally, no doubt, a simple name (attested in Proto-Norse is the
masc. weak Waiga, so we reconstruct masc. *Veigi also). We saw an
inscription (from Sweden) on our way to ON man, and being linguists
all of us, we read a woman's name Bulu in the oblique. We related the
name to Bolli, a masc., and figure that Bolla is a fine woman's name.
Gazing at the fire, we recall the Glodi (mentioned as a light-name),
also directly relates to the fire, as does Logi (many names compound
with Eld- in ON). We recall reading another Swedish inscription, this
one showing byr, and being good linguists, we relate this East Norse
variant with long y to West Norse long oe, and related a masc. *Boer
to our house-names, Gardr, Husi, Heimi, Gerdr. -Konrad