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Author: Peter
Email: penteract at oe dot eclipse dot co dot uk
Date: 2005-05-20 12:41:47
Subject: Re: translation (icelandic - english)
> I didn't found the translation of the name "Ullr". Is there anyone who can help me???
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"glory, splendour, magnificence", from Proto Norse *wulþuz.
The word is considered cognate with Old English 'wuldor' and Gothic 'wulþus'. That is, all these were originally the same word that evolved into different forms in the various Germanic dialects. It appears in an early runic inscription, c. 300 AD, on a bronze sword-chape from Thorsberg in Scheswig-Holstein, probably as the first part of a person's name: owlþuþewaz. In normalised spelling--runic spelling is quite erratic--this would be *wulþuþewaz "glory servant".