Spam: Re: Grace - salvation

Ingvild Roald ingvild.roald at STATPED.NO
Fri Feb 27 10:13:56 UTC 2004


I do not know why this came with a 'spam' label - it is sincere

Ingvild

SignWriting List <SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA> skriver:
>I thought it might interest you to see the Norwgian sign for christian
>salvation - and how it is derived.
>
>The ASL sign for 'safe' or 'save' seems more like our 'prisoner',
>'bondage', etc.
>
>The Norwegian word for 'salvation' is 'frelse' which derives from 'free
>neck', and the sign for dendancy is the same as for a slave - to be held
>by the nck (sorry I did not write that sign too)
>
>Ingvild
>


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