Rosomil, Rosmunda, Rosamunda

[ualarauans]

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

My two copecks: Slav. c^IrvI "worm", c^IrvljenU "red"


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