Definitions
Definitions
1 Embla
(in Ub. spelt Emla), u, f. a mythol. word, which only occurs in Vsp. 17; and hence in Edda (where it is said that the gods found two lifeless trees, the askr (ash) and the embla; of the ash they made man, of the embla woman), it is a question what kind of tree the embla was; some suggest a metathesis, qs. emla from ahnr, elm, but the compound emblu-askr, in one of Egil’s poems, seems to shew that the embla was in some way related to the ash.
Runic Inscription
Runic Inscription
Embla
The runic text above represents the Old Norse word "Embla" as it might appear in runic inscriptions from the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 CE).