Höku-nótt

古ノルス語の単語「höku-nótt」の意味 （またはhǫku-nótt）

クリースビー＆ヴィグフソンの古ノルス語から英語への辞書による定義:

höku-nótt (hǫku-nótt)

f. mid-winter night, about the time of Epiphany, when the heathen Yule began; a απ. λεγ.: hann setti þat í lögum at hefja Jólahald sem Kristnir menn …, en áðr var Jóla-hald hafit Hökunótt, þat var miðsvetrar-nótt (thus in FmS. i. 32, l. c.), ok haldin þriggja (þrettán?) nátta Jól, Hkr. i. 138 (Hák. S. Aðalst. ch. 15). The Scot. hogmaney, = the last day of the year or a feast given on that day, is a remnant of this ancient word. The heathen Yule seems among the Scandinavians to have been celebrated about three weeks later than Christmas; but the Norse king Hakon, who had been brought up in Christian England, altered the time of the festival, so as to make it correspond with the English Yule or Christmas; and so the heathen hökunótt came to represent our Christmas Eve. The etymology is not known.

正書法: クリースビー＆ヴィグフソンの本では、元の古ノルス語の母音ǫを表すためにöを使用しました。したがって、höku-nóttはhǫku-nóttとしてより正確に書かれるかもしれません。

ヤンガーフザルク文字での可能なルーン文字:ᚼᚢᚴᚢ-ᚾᚢᛏᛏ
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