ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᚲᚢᚱᚾᛖ
Proto-Norse
editEtymology
editKenning of *ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᛉ (*walhaʀ, “Gaul, Roman; southern foreigner”) + *ᚲᛟᚱᚾᚨ (*korna, “grain”).
Noun
editᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᚲᚢᚱᚾᛖ (walhakurne /walhakurnē/) n (dative singular)
- (poetic, kenning) gold
- 450-500, Tjurkö 1 bracteate
- ᚹᚢᚱᛏᛖᚱᚢᚾᛟᛉᚨᚾᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᚲᚢᚱᚾᛖ··ᚺᛖᛚᛞᚨᛉᚲᚢᚾᛁᛗᚢᛞᛁᚢ···
wurterunozanwalhakurne··heldazkunimudiu···- wurtē runōz an walhakurnē, Heldaz Kunimundiu
- Heldaz wrought the runes on the Welsh grain for Kunimunduz.
- 450-500, Tjurkö 1 bracteate
Usage notes
edit- This word is a kenning, a poetic circumlocution commonly employed in early Germanic poetry. The "Roman grain" refers to gold, the material of which the bracteate bearing the inscription was made. Specifically, it may refer to the Germanic melting of Roman solidi and aurei coins. Compare especially the Old Norse gold-kenning valbygg (“Welsh barley”), and the Old High German phrase cheisuringu gitan ‘made of the Emperor's coins’, referring to an arm-ring.