Vǫluspá 45-63 in Old Norse, with Analysis
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- A stanza-by-stanza look at what the text of Vǫluspá (the poem of creation and Ragnarok) says in Old Norse, following the oldest manuscript (the Codex Regius). This video covers stanzas 45-63. Start with the first video in this series: • Vǫluspá 1-20 in Old No...
Dr. Jackson Crawford is Instructor of Nordic Studies and Nordic Program Coordinator at the University of Colorado Boulder (formerly UC Berkeley and UCLA). He is a historical linguist and an experienced teacher of Old Norse, Modern Icelandic, and Norwegian.
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I love the way you read it and then spend the time to break it down as you translate. It's so much more helpful than just the English translation as a subtitle. You're awesome.
Von Frankenstein!!!???? Why, Madam, do you know that a SCHLOSS FRANKENSTEIN actually exists not far from Frankfort, Germany, mostly now a pile of reddish rubble, but the idea of an actual Castle Frankenstein made me spend two whole days walking through beech forests and along modern highways, wearing a backpack, actually foolishly trying to hitchhike as Beamers and Mercedes blew past me with angry looks on their drivers' faces. But it was all well worth it. I was 26 years old, traveling alone, and attached to no one yet. But when I got back to a Frankfort hostel I met a ravishingly beautiful blonde girl named Giselle, and fell in love for a few days, lol!
I love how old norse sounds! Thank you so much for this!
Fantastic! Loved every second of it! The modern English translation in your book is outstanding too.
I just finished this video I think I'm going to watch the videos again
ahhh just what I need at the moment - thank you as always Dr Crawford ♥
Love your work!
I am very thankful for your videos.
Kiitos paljon! So enjoyed listening to this. Halaus ja auringonpaiste 🌞N Ps.May I ask.. The pin, what does it say..? Is it a native American headband with feathers.. maybe something to do with Shoshone..or the Crows..?
beautiful.
Great video and presentation style! Keep up the good work! Cheers,🍻
As a swede there is still a lot of the words present even today. Not the exact same spellings of course but you can tell where the words have come from. For example: Styrir = styrar, Ormr = ormen, slítr = sliter, losnar = lossnar, gnýr = gnyr. Also whole sentences like "Hvat er med álfum?" = Vad är det med alver? etc.
When I was 26 I visited Old Uppsala in your lovely country, and actually had -- or at least I ordered -- a flagon of what is called in Old Norse, mjöðr whilst the English word is "mead", but I don't recall the actual Swedish word for this beverage at the Old Uppsala tavern on the hill west of the huge burial howe nor do I believe there was a drop of alcohol in it , but it was very tasty. I vaguely recall visiting the hall of a nearby University there where under a glass casket was an ancient vellum codex supposedly containing the lays of the Elder Edda, but this may be a false memory. But what a beautiful day and what a beautiful and exciting place. I hear that things have, how shall I put this? Gone downhill in Uppsala of late? But I surely HOPE not.
My brain keeps merging Dr Daniel Jackson, and Dr Jackson Crawford into Dr Daniel Jackson Crawford XD
Raise one eye brow..... Indeed....
If there was one person from the (Norse) past you could talk to (no language barriers) for one hour, who would it be? And what would you ask?
For me personally, it would be Heimdallr. I would want to ask his opinion on humanity and the road we've taken and if it fits what he invisioned for us.
*EDIT* : OH you meant an actual person! My bad. I'm an idiot. I'd love to talk to Ragnar the Red.
my Norse ancestor/s who moved to Norwich - where they moved from, and why - how they viewed the world - how they viewed the gods and worshiped them (not a pagan myself just curious) are they happy - starting points anyway...
Hands down Egil Sallagrimson because who wouldn't want to talk to the greatest berserkr/skaldic poet all rolled into one? Next in line Snorri Sturluson, because how fascinating it would be to learn how much written material he was working from was in excess to what rescued vellums several hundreds of years old we have since uncocered in ancient hay lofts or whatever?
Gjallarhorni, a dative singular neutral or neuter nown, IMHO, is a tad more difficult to pronounce than Professor Crawford so pleasantly causes it to sound, though I LIKE his pronunciation far MORE than the one taught to me by Crawford´s very predecessors at UCLA, Dr Erik Walgren and Dr. Kenneth Chapman, and that pronunciation has plagued me for 45 years running ever since, the double "L" in Icelandic taught to me FIRST by then very, very young UCLA Professor Blasingale or Blasingame as I vaguely recall his name, and THAT was a dreadfully difficult snorting or even sneezing sound that I am sure I have never ONCE performed correctly.
BUT Professor Crawford DOES explain that he will be speaking in RECONSTRUCTED Old Norse, which conveniently allows one a whole lot of valuable discretion, a VERY sound thing to preface one's reading of the Eddas and Sagas with. I LOVE Crawford's beautiful version of Old Norse! A magnificently creative sui generis member of the otherwise often disappointingly bullshitty august bastions of academia.
So Bravo, professor! Bravissimo! BTW, Professor Chapman gave me a recording of a famous Icelandic actress, name now forgotten, that I have of course long since lost and, concerning the great professor, he also asked us, his six or eight students, WHAT the preposition UM "MEANT" in the Eddas or perhaps in Skaldic poetry too...a very confusing question because technically "um" is a preposition that most normally MEANS in Old norse "around, concerning, about in regard to" ...and his answer, however, with a hearty laugh, was that it often means NOTHING... because, he chortled, it is only a place keeper in order to make the poems read more easily. Something like that, anyway. It is tons of fun and laughter studying Old Norse, as professor Crawford so brilliantly conveys.
"Nú mun hon søkkvask"?????? in some original copies of Völuspá it reads Nú mun HUN SØKKVAST or even Nú mun EK søkkvast, the terminal consonant of the reflexive verb meaning to sink or perhaps sink ONESELF being EITHER "T" or "K", for reasons I've never understood. BUT the differences in nominative pronouns, Hon, Hun or Ek equates to (She)modern Icelandic, (She) Old Norse and (I) Old Norse, the völva manifestly referring to herself in the third person in both the "hon" or "hun" versions. Ironically similar IMHO to the famous Woman of Endor or Witch of Endor anecdote from the Old Testament involving King Saul's pestering of a VERY reluctant necromantic woman of Endor into conjuring "dead and burried" prophet Samuel's brief and reluctant return to "life." as a freaking "god" or so at least the Bible SAYS in no uncertain terms. BUT -- as I once told a Jesus freak, "Sort of coming from THE WRONG DIRECTION, ey wot?" or "Wouldn't you have expected the very good and sinless prophet, Samuel, to have gone UP to heaven instead of down to... WHERE, EXACTLY BTW?" LMFAO! or will wonders never cease, lol?
Hi, dr. Crawford, but I wanted to know is there any sources that state that Vali was a son of Loki and not Odin?
How come in stanza 46 the word standandi doesnt have runes for the letter N?
It just says statati?
Isn't Naglfar built by the nails of all that are gone down into Hell? I thought so, so nails are then supposed to be finger and toe nails.
Dr. Crawford should do a Review of God of War 4! Whos with me? :D
Seraphatum He did. If you're a Patreon supporter, you can get a look at it before the review is released. 😉
I imagine his response would be covered under one of his earlier videos ua-cam.com/video/XNpjOTu9I5E/v-deo.html
Thank you very much!
Hello (=
Hello That Hello Guy :)
Hi Julia, having a good day (/morning/night) I hope. (=
perfect timing - both morning and night - just gone midnight here :)
you too THG - happy day/morning/night :)
Hmmm midnight, that's almost the perfect time for a walk, (= 2PM here. (=
I agree - my preferred time for a walk - so where are you?
Hi Jackson... can you please help spell my mom's name in elder futhark.... I was thinking of getting her name tattooed ... I couldn't find any other way to communicate with you... that's why I'm putting out a comment in your video...