Re: KRS: Final thoughts

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:38:55 +0200, Erik Hammerstad
<egeha.is.all.you.need@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>cgjt wrote:
>> "Erik Hammerstad" <egeha.is.all.you.need@xxxxxxxx> skrev i
>> meddelandet news:3ic9joFipe1uU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> snip
>>
>> By the way
>>
>>>professor Sköld notes that the use of the double dots in
>>
>> the runes
>>
>>>dates them to not earlier than the 18th century, as that's
>>
>> when
>>
>>>the double dots in the ö (oe) and the ä (ae) first
>>
>> appeared in
>>
>>>Swedish printing.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anybody know more about DS 2268
>> http://fmpro.ra.se/ra/medeltid/pdf/3045.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>>>Interestingly, Tryggve Sköld is continuing his
>>
>> investigation of
>>
>>>the KRS language, see (in Swedish, sorry)
>>>http://www2.sofi.se/daum/katta/katta15/katta15.pdf.
>>
>> Assuming the
>>
>>>text to be modern he is making a case for its author being
>>
>> a
>>
>>>Norwegian from Northern Østerdalen, possibly with some
>>>modifications being made by a Swedish carver from Dalarna.
>>
>> This
>>
>>>for someone interested in pointing to possible
>>
>> perpetrators (Sköld
>>
>>>agrees it was not Ohman).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Prof. Sköld seems to be unaware of the early use of 'h' in
>> 'ahr'
>> and the spelling of day as 'dagh'. He has an obvious bias.
>>
>> From 'Svenskt diplomatariums huvudkartotek över
>> medeltidsbreven' at;
>>
>> http://62.20.57.212/ra/medeltid/soksida.html
>>
>> The numbers are...
>>
>> Brevnummer (Number of letter)
>> Årtal (Date of letter,year only)
>> then the relevant text is quoted.
>>
>> 4465
>> 1339
>> æpter wars Herra byrdh Tusandhe arum, ok tryhundradha ahrum,
>> ok trettigi
>> ahrum, ok a nyondha areno niclatinsa *) dag &c.
>>
>>
><snip further examples>
>
>I'll leave Sköld to his own defense, by his reference list he
>seems to be relying quite a lot on Wahlgren, whether that's wise I
>have no idea.

It's distinctly unwise. Hall made a first rate job of showing Wahlgren
to be utterly dishonest with respect to the KRS.
>
>Re your examples I presume you intend them for showing spellings
>from old times. However, checks on some of them show that the
>texts are later copies of the originals, if so the original
>spelling may not have come through.
>




Eric Stevens

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