[gothic-l] Suartuas-Aordus.

[Einar Birgisson]

Hæ.                                                                   

When I saw the name Suartuas for the first time, then I suspected it 
to mean ´Svartur´ which is a old name.                                
 That name can be seen in the Book of Settlement and in the Sagas.. 
That name seems not to have been used after about the year 
1800.                                                            
´svartur´ means; dark,black,dismal,murky etc.

>From the Icelandic Etymological Wordbook; 
................svartur < germ.*swarta-< ie. *suordo-, maybe sk. 
latin sordës ´dirt´ (< *suordës), sorditus 
´dirty´.........................

So Suartuas was not a name with a positive meaning.
And Suartuas was not a nice guy. As far as I remember.

I suspected the name Aordus to be the name ´Hörður´..                 
Araltes was Haraldur and from that knowledge it seemed to be a 
possibility that Aordus was Hörður.                                   
Hörður is an old name that is used in the Book of Settlement and the 
Sagas..

According to the Icelandic Etymological Wordbook it could be 
connected to ´Hörðar´ that is people from Hordaland(Hörðaland) in 
Norway......latin Harudes, greek kharoudes (Ptolemaeus) a name of a 
tribe, cf.old Danish Harthæsyssel and a Swedish runic inscription 
Haruþs( a man´s name)........................                         
Well, the meaning is somehow debated. I can not translate everything 
they have to say. Do not have time.

Bless,Bless. Einar.


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