Rosomil, Rosmunda, Rosamunda

[llama_nom]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Note especially the name 'rosmu-fjöll' in Atlakviða st. 17.
> > 
> > "Seinat er nú, systir,
> > at samna Niflungum;
> > langt er at leita
> > lýða sinnis til,
> > of rosmufjöll Rínar
> > rekka óneissa."
> 
> I remember reading that rosmufjöll is a reminiscence of Worms, the 
> capital of the 1st Burgundian kingdom.

Which brings us neatly, albeit coincidentally, to Old English
'wyrm-réad', 'wyrm-basu' "scarlet" and 'wyrmlic fáh', 'wyrm-fáh'
"coloured red" (according to Wrenn & Bolton, "...and probably not
'decorated with serpentine patternings'"), 'wurma' "murex, purplefish,
purple"--and the Aztecs with their cochineal...

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