Ergi
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Ergi in the Viking Age
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Saleby Runestone
Although no runic inscription uses the term Script error: No such module "Lang"., runestone Vg 67 in Saleby, Sweden, includes a curse that anyone breaking the stone would become a Script error: No such module "Lang"., translated as a 'wretch', 'outcast', or 'warlock', and Script error: No such module "Lang"., which is translated as 'maleficent woman' in the dative.[1] Here Script error: No such module "Lang". appears to be related to the practice of Script error: No such module "Lang".[2] and represents the most loathsome term the runemaster could imagine calling someone.[3]
Modern usage
Template:Refimprove In modern Scandinavian languages, the lexical root Script error: No such module "Lang". has assumed the meaning "angry", as in Swedish, Bokmål and Nynorsk Template:Wikt-lang, or Danish Template:Wikt-lang. Modern Icelandic has the derivation Script error: No such module "Lang"., meaning "to seem/appear irritable", similar to Bokmål ergre, meaning "to irritate". (There are similarities to the German Template:Wikt-lang, "annoying, annoyed", and Dutch Template:Wikt-lang, "irritating" and Template:Wikt-lang, "to irritate".) In modern Faroese the adjective Script error: No such module "Lang". means "angry/annoyed" and the verb Script error: No such module "Lang". means to "taunt" or "bully". In modern Dutch, the word Template:Wikt-lang has become a fortifier equivalent to English very; the same is true for the old-fashioned adjective Template:Wikt-lang in German, which means "wicked" (especially in compounds as Template:Wikt-lang "malicious" and Template:Wikt-lang "unsuspecting"), but has become a fortifier in the Austrian German. The meaning of the word in Old Norse has been preserved in loans into neighboring Finnic languages: Livonian ārga, Estonian Template:Wikt-lang and Finnish Template:Wikt-lang, both meaning "cowardly".
See also
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References
External links
- Template:In lang SAOB: Arg.adj
- Template:In lang Från niding till sprätt. En studie i det svenska omanlighetsbegreppets historia från vikingatid till sent 1700-tal
- Template:In lang Adolfsson, Lars: Germanska mannaförbund. Existens och initiation. Bachelor's thesis, Uppsala 2004
- Viking Answer Lady
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- ↑ Project Samnordisk Runtextdatabas Svensk - Rundata entry for Vg 67.
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