1. Cor. 6:9-10

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> 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

ON blauðr is a-stem while its cognates (OE bleaðe, OS blôthi) are i- 
or ja-stems. What could be the Gothic form?

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

A very informative article. Thanks.

Ualarauans


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