26-09-2022, 03:46 PM
Hello,
thanks for quoting my work.
I graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures. I know Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish and a little Norwegian, currently studying Finnish and Icelandic.
I've been a translator and a Professor both of English and French, now contract Professor at the Università degli Studi di Bari, Apulia, teaching Phytoalimurgy and Ethnobotany.
You would mainly find my works as published books and my magazine (so not Academia or alike). Everything on the internet can be easily stolen and copyright is paramount. Many suggestions are in my public posts, mixed in other texts dealing with edible species and particularly folklore.
I've been studying the Beinecke 408 manuscript for 30 years now, and I have transliterated the folio 116v, which is the main core in this publication (Nymðe + The Unearthing +).
It is a long book because I needed to delve into the introduction and the basis to explain more about the transliteration of most of the manuscript in the second volume, upcoming. There some reference to some words in the manuscript which have been transliterated too.
The term seiðr is a reference to what in many ways emerges through the script and the illustration in the manuscript.
I deal with the Beinecke 408 manuscript as a work of art first, then analyse history, context, similarities, suggestions. For me it is fundamental to look at the work as a whole, and I do not agree with those trying to find a "key" just as if it's a modern app or something. We need to change our mind and shift to a, let's say, 15th century mind. It is a multi-level approach and my contribution is a step to start walking in this direction.
We need paleographists, archaeologists, botanists.
As far as ethnobotany is concerned, in the upcoming second volume a complete explanation of all the vegetable species in the first, so-called "herbarium", will be provided. Also because those species are clearly named in the text of every "botanical representation".
Thank you again.
Have a good read.
thanks for quoting my work.
I graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures. I know Italian, English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish and a little Norwegian, currently studying Finnish and Icelandic.
I've been a translator and a Professor both of English and French, now contract Professor at the Università degli Studi di Bari, Apulia, teaching Phytoalimurgy and Ethnobotany.
You would mainly find my works as published books and my magazine (so not Academia or alike). Everything on the internet can be easily stolen and copyright is paramount. Many suggestions are in my public posts, mixed in other texts dealing with edible species and particularly folklore.
I've been studying the Beinecke 408 manuscript for 30 years now, and I have transliterated the folio 116v, which is the main core in this publication (Nymðe + The Unearthing +).
It is a long book because I needed to delve into the introduction and the basis to explain more about the transliteration of most of the manuscript in the second volume, upcoming. There some reference to some words in the manuscript which have been transliterated too.
The term seiðr is a reference to what in many ways emerges through the script and the illustration in the manuscript.
I deal with the Beinecke 408 manuscript as a work of art first, then analyse history, context, similarities, suggestions. For me it is fundamental to look at the work as a whole, and I do not agree with those trying to find a "key" just as if it's a modern app or something. We need to change our mind and shift to a, let's say, 15th century mind. It is a multi-level approach and my contribution is a step to start walking in this direction.
We need paleographists, archaeologists, botanists.
As far as ethnobotany is concerned, in the upcoming second volume a complete explanation of all the vegetable species in the first, so-called "herbarium", will be provided. Also because those species are clearly named in the text of every "botanical representation".
Thank you again.
Have a good read.
(20-09-2022, 07:44 PM)pfeaster wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(20-09-2022, 06:55 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I hesitate to admit that I am not familiar with what seiðr is; as for the knowledge of our Ancestors, this is perhaps a bit trivial and hence not subject for disproval.
I didn't know the term seiðr eiðr, but it evidently refers to a form of iron-age Norse magic (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). There's an Old English word nymðe meaning "except" or "unless" -- maybe this turns up in the proposed transliteration?