[gothic-l] Re: Suartuas-Aordus.

[Einar Birgisson]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Einar Birgisson" <einarbirg at y...> wrote:
> 
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.
 
   Einar;.. Hæ.  I found the name ´svartur´ in Snorra-Edda.           
 It is written; ´suartr´ and is translated as ´svartur´  It is in 
article 414. It was a name for a giant.                               

   Bless,bless. Einar
> 
> 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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