1. Cor. 6:9-10

[llama_nom]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>

> The first problem with these strophes is to find Gothic equivalents 
> for Greek MALAKOS and ARSENOKOITHS which are often thought to refer 
> to the passive and the active partner in an homosexual relation 
> respectively. In the extant fragments of the Gothic Bible Greek 
> MALAKOS is translated with Go. hnasqus "soft", "delicate" (Mt. 11:8, 
> Luc. 7:25 mannan <in> hnasqjaim wastjom gawasidana "a man clothed in 
> soft raiment"), MALAKIA with unhaili "unhealthiness", "desease"
> (Mt. 9:35 hailjands allos sauhtins jah alla unhailja "healing every 
> sickness and every disease"). But both these terms obviously don't 
> fit the context of the fragment in question.

Old Norse has a term 'blauðr' "soft, weak; female (of animals);
effeminate, cowardly", with the same root as the Gothic verb
'blauþjan'. It's used in a rendering of Mt 11:8, 'blauðan mann', but
also as an insult, e.g. paired with 'ragr' (='argr') in Hrómundar saga
Gripssonar.

http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/png/oi_cleasbyvigfusson/b0067.png

There's an article here [ http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/gayvik.shtml
] about Norse attitudes to homosexuality with some more vocabulary
(stroðinn, sorðinn, sannsorðinn).

LN

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