[gothic-l] Scandinavia and Scania, Nos 8-9.

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, [Windows-1252] Bertil Häggman wrote:
> Beowulf's Scedenigge corresponds to *Skadhin-awjo, 
> Scedelandum in has the plural form like Scandiae.
> 
> 9. The Langobards' Scadan, the Concept of 'Danger'
> in the Concrete Sense
> 
> A piece of evidence over a thousand years old
> supporting the interpretation 'the dangerous island' is
> provided by a passage in _Origo Gentis Langobardorum_
> dealing with the name of their old native country: Scadan, quod
> interpretatur 'excidia', i.e. 'ruin, destruction'. In several
> languages 'destruction' or 'danger' is found as the
> personification or in a concrete sense, e.g. Anglo-Saxon
> sceadha and mansceadha respectively.

Are you suggesting that is related to
caedo, caedes, cadere, cessi, cassum ?

Ocassum --> the death  of day.

deceso (Spanish) ---> pass away (to the heavens).

Then cad is a Indoeuropean root for death ?


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