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
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>The recent discussion on Catholic Vikings and Inuit was forwarded to
>H-skand, where it now begins to attract comments as the following:
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>>Subject: CATHOLIC VIKINGS & INUIT
>>Submitted by: Dick Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
>>Date: 28.02.1997
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>>> 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".
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>>Why christian? Why not Nerthus / Njord or someone?
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>>> 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.
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>>What is this practice?
>>
>>Dick
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