Old Saxon Personal Names Part 5 (Hêlaggard - Hôdag)
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2022
- In this video, Dr. Scott Shell provides personal names attested in the Old Saxon corpus. This is Part 5 of the sub-series regarding personal names and covers Hêlaggard ('holy-home') - Hôdag ('high-day'). The fifth set of 10 names out of 125 are provided in this next installment. The names are provided in the attested forms, standardized Heliand forms and runic forms.
Old Saxon Speech Area Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhnk...
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LINKS TO BOOKS:
Lecouteux, Claude. 2016. Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology, and Magic:
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Kershaw, Kris. 2000. The One-eyed God: Odin and the (Indo-) Germanic Männerbünde:
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Peaceful setting. Great names
My grandmother was a Hazel
The same pronunciation rule for 's' still applies today.
Yeah, it's very common. I just wanted to be clear because I know someone would have wanted to pronounce that as an [s] :)
Dr Shell the name Hasala seems a lot like the name Hase or Old Saxon Hasa meaning Hare. I come from Osnabrück in Niedersachsen the River Hase starts in the Teutoburg Forest and goes north and then west and flows into the Ems River. Could Hasala possibly have a meaning of the Hare. The Teutoburg Forest was called the Osning before the 18th Century. Our City coat of Arms has a Wheel with six spokes that may refer to either the 6 spoke Sun Cross or to the 6 tribes that took part in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest which took place 12 miles north of Osnabrück in Kalkriese in 9 CE the tribes were the Cherusci, Chatti, Chauci, Bructeri, Sicambri and Marsi according to Tacitus writing in 98 CE.
I have a question. When would people get their names? A lot of them seem very specific. Would they just get a name at birth hoping that little Hildiburg becomes as cool as the name suggests? Would they change names later in life to something that is a better fit? Or just be given a nickname? Is any of that even known?
The Scandinavian sources tell us that the child is given a gift, sprinkled with water, and given a name at birth. Usually the person was given such a name because the thought was that the word endowed them with such qualities. Having power over one's name is almost like having power over one's wyrd/fate/destiny. An example where the word/name of a person could be used against them is in Fafnismal when Fafnir asks Sigurd for his name. The story then literally tells us that people believed in being able to use a person's name to curse them, i.e., they only need to know and utter the person's name to cause something to happen.
And nicknames are something that definitely happened later in life
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Hodag was interesting. I would guess male because of the sun reference. I’m sure there’s one out there somewhere, but I can’t think of a feminine reference to the sun
The actual sun is feminine in the Germanic sources. It was the Romans who came along and introduced the concept of the sun being masculine.
@@scottt.shellcontinentalger2464 see I had always thought the moon was the feminine. LOL. I figured maybe in the eastern practices the sun. Now I know better. 😊
@@kariannecrysler640 Yep! In Old Saxon, the word for 'moon' is mâno; it is a masculine noun. The word for 'sun' is sunna; it is a feminine noun.