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L O W L A N D S - L  -  07 June 2007 - Volume 02

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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2007.06.06 (04) [E]

Dear John Welsh:

Subject: L-Lowlands Etymology

I was responding to a question about the survival or memory of the ancient
pagan gods & goddesses in Afrikaans terminology.

"..Kom ons kyk na Woedan, die As, heer van die gode. Hy is die god van die
storm en van die slagveld,..."

The primal Woden, chief of the dominant tribe of gods, the Aesir,  in
Ingweronian terms was identified as Wode, an entity in parallel with the
more developed & personalised Norse entity Odin, friend of warriors. This
Wode rode Sliepnur, was god of the Storm & the Wild Hunt, & associated with
battle fury. Afrikaans for fury is 'woede'. In Afrikaans, as I presume
is the case in many Lowlands languages, many of the great abstractions &
forces of Nature survive in the verbal references to their ancient domain...
Freyer, vry, to make love, court & vryer, lover: Frygge, vrug, fruit or
vrugbaar, to be fruitful: Doner, donder, thunder, or to commit an assault:
Loki, verlok, to lure or seduce: To Woden's ravens Hugin, thought, the
Afrikaans has gehue, & to Munnin, memory, the Afrikaans has gemaan, remind.
& so it goes.

Mon plaiseur M'seur.
Mark
 merci beaucoup
John

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