Mistil-teinn
Altnordisches Wörterbuch - mistil-teinn
Bedeutung des altnordischen Wortes "mistil-teinn"
Wie im Cleasby & Vigfusson Altnordisch-Englisch Wörterbuch definiert:
- mistil-teinn
- m. [O. H. G. mistil; Germ. mistel; A. S. mistel or mislel-tâ; Engl. mistletoe]:—the mistletoe or mistle-twig, the fatal twig by which Balder, the white sun-god, was slain, see Vsp. 36 sqq., and the legend in Edda 36, 37. After the death of Balder the Ragnarök (the last day of the heathen mythology) set in. Balder’s death was also symbolical of the victory of darkness over light, which comes every year at midwinter. The mistletoe in English households at Christmas time is, no doubt a relic of a rite lost in the remotest heathenism, for the fight of light and darkness at midwinter was a foreshadowing of the final overthrow in Ragnarök. The legend and the word are common to all Teutonic people of all ageS.
Mögliche Runeninschrift im Jüngeren Futhark:ᛘᛁᛋᛏᛁᛚ-ᛏᛁᛁᚾᚾ
Jüngere Futhark-Runen wurden vom 8. bis 12. Jahrhundert in Skandinavien und ihren überseeischen Siedlungen verwendet
Verwendete Abkürzungen:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.
- English.
- Germ.
- German.
- gl.
- glossary.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- O. H. G.
- Old High German.
- S.
- Saga.
Zitierte Werke & Autoren:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Vsp.
- Völuspá. (A. I.)