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Bo-Shrewsy t1_iuxnpoe wrote

Reply to comment by marmorset in TIL that King Alfred the Great evaded the Vikings by hiding in a swamp. He then caught them off guard and smashed the Viking army. by NotThenNotNowNever

Odin wzs Othin???? This revelation completely distracts me from everything you said. It's like giving an hour long lecture on Constantine the great, and at the end, very abruptly, irrelevantly, and life-changingly just going "oh yeah, and Jesus's actual name was Larry"

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marmorset t1_iuy2pe9 wrote

It's like Odin with a lisp, it's hard getting used to. The ð looks like a d so very often it was just translated to d, like in Odin or Miðgarðr becoming Midgard.

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Bo-Shrewsy t1_iuyf0ss wrote

Midgard is Mithgarth? Is every gard a garth? So like Asgarth?

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marmorset t1_iuzhhis wrote

Yes, gard is garðr. Ásgarðr and Miðgarðr.

Also, Jesus' actual name was Yeshua, which in Greek became Iēsoūs, and then Iesus in Latin, and finally Jesus in English. There's a slightly different version of the same name in the Bible, Yehoshua, but that came directly from Hebrew to English, we pronounce it Joshua.

In Greek however, it's the same name, there's no difference. And in English we'd pronounce Yeshua as Joshua as well if it hadn't gone through Greek and Latin first.

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Bo-Shrewsy t1_iv0c78g wrote

I knew about Yeshua, I'd looked it up at some point, but thanks for charting its transmutation. But I never looked up Odin, it never occured to me it could be that different seeings as how it came from the same language family.

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