The Icelandic Rune Poem
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- Опубліковано 16 бер 2023
- The Icelandic Rune Poem is a surprisingly difficult text to present a coherent picture of.
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Y’know, I sent your team/yourself an email about something I’m extremely passionate about and I thought maybe you could genuinely help with. If it’s money that you’re interested in, that would be no problem. However, you, and or your team, have made no effort to respond to me. The fact that I’m willing to wear your life’s work on my body should be something that you should be proud of or at least pretend to give a crap about.
Just going to drop a tiny theory which is not supported or serious at all, but I think the work is someone's extra credit homework assignment, and the author was just flexing his literary muscles, as a proud poet from Island.
Ancient busy work
Honestly, I'll subscribe to that. It really sounds like someone was working on a paper, maybe even just in their past time and didn't take it seriously.
Two things: It would be interesting to chart out the different rune poems, and see what rune meanings have stayed the same, and which changed - perhaps there would be some information that could be discerned from that. Secondly - I would be interested in a detailed discussion of the poem you mentioned, where Gudrun's name is cryptically included in kennings.
This was a student assignment, in which they were asked to list off all of the kennings they could remember. it was never meant to be a poem, and it is only an accident that it survived for hundreds of years to be rediscovered and misinterpreted. Gives me hope that some of my old student papers will be preserved and placed on a pedestal.
Another head-scratcher for me is Hallmundarkviða. It's a description of volcanic eruption in Iceland in the 10th century and very pagan in outlook but hard to parse.
According to the Internet, you are an Icelandic astronaut who died in 2022. 😉
Obviously, a thousand years ago, someone asked the Viking version of ChatGPT: “Write a Rune Poem.”
I liked the weeping clouds.
The tears of clouds are the bane of the late traveler, as rain is even more undesirable to a man who needs to travel during the night as it is in the day.
Thanks for the accurate descriptions
*Dr. Crawford:* This has nothing to do with this video but I'm hoping to catch your attention since this is your latest video. I wonder if you've heard of the author *Elizabeth H. Boyer.* I read her *"The Elves and the Otterskin"* in Jr. High school but didn't fully appreciate some of the Norse references until watching some of your videos.
It is the story of a band of outcast Alfar who accidentally kill Ottar, the son of the King of the dökkálfar while he was in the form of an otter (it turns out he was saved by a "dwarf" named Andvari who took the form of a fish which I though might amuse you).
In the story, Alfar can take on another form which they refer to as a familiar, or a *Fylgja.* That word popped into my head from decades ago and thanks to you I now know that Icelandic can be used to translate so I just found out that it means *"follower".*
I just thought that the book might interest you. If not, no offense taken.
11:06 RE: Sickness of snakes
Hail = bladder/kidney stones?
The man out late does not like rain. That does not seem mysterious to me.
Great video, can't wait to dive more into this!
At the time this was written, do you think any random person in Iceland would have understood this if it had been read to them, or would it be as nonsense to them as modern scholars? Is it their version of The Jabberwocky?
I wonder if an analogy would be how Modern English speakers have a vague familiarity with the King James Bible, & try to pray in that form of English without really understanding the rules of it (the different conjugations, meaning of "thou", etc.) & say what amounts to grammatically incorrect statements. Could this be a more extreme version of that, where, as you said, these bits of kennings were floating around, & some vague sense of an original was refabricated, but ultimately being mostly nonsense?
Being a beginner, the lateral (af)fricatives caught me off guard lol. Or at least that's what I think I'm hearing, am I misinterpreting? Do they really use this sound in modern Icelandic?
Wonder what's going on with the views, its been a few hours? Im curious if these videos have ever been hit with demonitization or poor algorithmic treatment, if so how often?
In America, a lot of folks are going out to party as it's St. Patrick's Day.
As an American I can attest that studying Norse is not among the top 10 most popular weekend evening activities. Maybe if we could establish some Norse bars the numbers would improve. 🙂
P.S. I just realized that your comment was sometime around 4pm where I live so my comment may be wrong, but I'd still like to see some Norse bars in my area.
how can we pronounce this HINDI LANGUAGE word that is यक्ष sound from HINDI to OLD NORSE
you can check sound from google translate
I'd go for Dis (singular) Disir(plural).
or did you mean how to write it in runes?? I would think in standard younger futhark from the viking age I A K H S would be a possible. There is no exakt way to write the last sound in runes. Just I A H S is also a possibilty. So first Is(or possibly y: Yr), then Ar, (then Kaun), then Hagal, then Sol. If you want your second name to I think something like Tyr, Sol, Ar, Ur (or maybe Os),Hagal, Ar, Naud