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Here is a side issue to this, but I have not had a chance to let it off for about 35 years... I remember reading at Oxford, I *think* in Klaeber's Beowulf, or Wrenn's - which I no longer have - that there is / are occasional uses of * onsendan * in ON in a sense which is clearly sacrificial (parralel, MnE *despatch* ?). Does anyone else (with a suspicious mind like mine) detect the possibility of a (semantic) link with the Chrn Lat use of *mitto* in the same sense, or context, viz as an explanation why the Latin Mass from quite early times (O Morhmann, ut iam vives!) announced the completion of the (sacrifice) with *Ite, MISSA est* Felix inter columbas forte posui... Anselm Cramer OSB [log in to unmask] >The recent discussion on Catholic Vikings and Inuit was forwarded to >H-skand, where it now begins to attract comments as the following: > >>X-Sender: [log in to unmask] >>Approved-By: H-SKAND Allan Bengtsson <[log in to unmask]> >>Reply-To: H-Net List on Scandinavian History & Culture >> <[log in to unmask]> >>From: H-SKAND Allan Bengtsson <[log in to unmask]> >>To: Multiple recipients of list H-SKAND <[log in to unmask]> >> >>***************************************************************** >>Subject: CATHOLIC VIKINGS & INUIT >>Submitted by: Dick Dawson <[log in to unmask]> >>Date: 28.02.1997 >>***************************************************************** >> >> >>[..] >> >>> We know from Bjarni Herjolfsson that there were Christians on >>the > voyage of discovery of Iceland; there was a Southern guy >>(probably a > German) who composed the Lay of the Towering Waves >>on the way there: > "May the Lord of earth's lofty hall hold his >>hawk's perch over me". >> >>---------------------- >> >>Why christian? Why not Nerthus / Njord or someone? >> >>> We know that there were churches and that Erik the Red's wife, >> Thjodhildr, was converted to Christianity and refused to sleep >>with him after that "and he took this greatly to heart". There >>was a church named after her. As to masses, hymns, etc, there >>is a huge literature. I think you can assume that there were >>of the usual medieval type; many northmen were educated abroad >>as were all the early bishops. We occasionally hear of wierd >>practices eg: of >>Thrandr i Goetu but mostly we Norsemen were pretty square. >> >>-------------------- >> >>What is this practice? >> >>Dick >>[log in to unmask] >>http://web.syr.edu/~ddawson >> >> >forwarded by Kurt Villads Jensen >[log in to unmask] > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%