Re: Old Norse (was Re: New to the list)
| From: | Oskar Gudlaugsson <hr_oskar@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 19, 2000, 19:26 |
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On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:10:22 +0200, BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>At 06:02 17.6.2000 +0000, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
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>>Forget the "herra". I don't recall seeing it in a saga. The setting of the
>>sagas was more "egalitarian" than that of Feudal Europe at the same time.
>>There were no peasants that had to say "Lord", "Sire", etc to bypassing
>>knights so as not to have their heads chopped off (or was that Japan? :).
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>Yet _herra_ is used adressing kings in the latter part of Heimskringla!
Ok. I meant rather that "herra" would not be seen in a normal conversation.
I wouldn't have denied that it would've been used for the king himself.
Highest nobility were of course entitled to such honorifics (the earls and
the kings).
Oskar