Greeting Hails

[Thorgeir Holm]

31.05.12 21.29 wrait Grsartor at aol.com:
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> The only further comment I can make about Old Norse usage is that in the
> example Þunragais gave us,
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> verit heilir, konungr
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> Could Þunragais or
> others tell us more about the Old Norse practice?
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I found an even more interesting quote in Fritzner's dictionary: “Heil 
ok sæl, María!”, i.e. ‘Ave Maria’, which is an alone-standing ‘hails’ in 
the feminine. So it seems Old Norse did decline the greeting even if it 
was the one word variety.

Þunragais


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