Jez wrote:
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> But let's have a go...
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Jez et al
good one -
I'm presuming "hekk" is to hang -
although cant find that in OI dictionary (online)
meithi* in second line is tree -
I guess one has to look into the meaning of "hekk" to see if it has any
associations with punishment etc
nithr* for down below, underworld or abyss - its ambigious as you say -?
although hung from a tree seems certain - but not killed or hung by the
neck?
Mogg
I don't actually know OI - but seems like it is related to English and
has some Indo-European word roots -
my languages are Sanskrit and Middle Egyptian.
> /138/
> Veit ek at ek hekk
> vindga meiši į
> nętr allar nķu
> geiri undašr
> ok gefinn Óšni
> sjįlfr sjįlfum mér
> į žeim meiši
> er manngi veit
> hvers hann af rótum renn
> I know that I hung
> upon a windy tree
> for nine whole nights,
> wounded with a spear
> and given to Othinn,
> myself to myself for me;
> on that tree
> I knew nothing
> of what kind of roots it came from.
> /139/
> Viš hleifi mik sęldu
> né viš hornigi
> nżsta ek nišr
> nam ek upp rśnar
> pandi nam
> fell ek aptr žašan
> They cheered me with a loaf
> and not with any horn,
> I investigated down below,
> I took up the runes,
> screaming I took them,
> and I fell back from there.
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> --
> Jez
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