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Bo-Shrewsy t1_iuyf0ss 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

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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