Re: Beowulfskvädets topografi
Postat: 27 augusti 2019, 17:43
Då valar tydligen spelar viss roll i ortnamn mm i Beowulfkvädet kan kolla lite på mytologin o likn:
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/beowulf.html
"Beowulf answered: "Unferth, my friend, in your drunkenness you have said much about my adventure with Breca. Now I will tell the truth of what happened. When we were still boys Breca and I had boasted that one day we would test our strength at sea; and we did as we had spoken in our youth. To defend ourselves against whales we swam carrying naked swords in our hands."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kennings
the sea =whale-road =hron-rād
https://www.britannica.com/topic/orc
"The word orc in English has two distinct sources. Orc in reference to a vaguely cetacean sea monster is borrowed from one or more Romance words, such as the French orque or the Italian orca, all ultimately descended from the Latin orca, which probably denoted a small cetacean such as the killer whale."
"A different word orc, alluding to a demon or ogre, appears in Old English glosses of about ad 800 and in the compound word orcnēas (“monsters”) in the poem Beowulf. As with the Italian orco (“ogre”) and the word ogre itself, it ultimately derives from the Latin Orcus, a god of the underworld. "
Lite mer info:
https://www.whalefacts.org/whales-in-mythology/
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/beowulf.html
"Beowulf answered: "Unferth, my friend, in your drunkenness you have said much about my adventure with Breca. Now I will tell the truth of what happened. When we were still boys Breca and I had boasted that one day we would test our strength at sea; and we did as we had spoken in our youth. To defend ourselves against whales we swam carrying naked swords in our hands."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kennings
the sea =whale-road =hron-rād
https://www.britannica.com/topic/orc
"The word orc in English has two distinct sources. Orc in reference to a vaguely cetacean sea monster is borrowed from one or more Romance words, such as the French orque or the Italian orca, all ultimately descended from the Latin orca, which probably denoted a small cetacean such as the killer whale."
"A different word orc, alluding to a demon or ogre, appears in Old English glosses of about ad 800 and in the compound word orcnēas (“monsters”) in the poem Beowulf. As with the Italian orco (“ogre”) and the word ogre itself, it ultimately derives from the Latin Orcus, a god of the underworld. "
Lite mer info:
https://www.whalefacts.org/whales-in-mythology/