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Þul Dœgra 1III/8 — émispéríum ‘hemisphere’

Þul Dœgra 1III

Dœgr, hlýrn ok røkr,         díes ok lýsing,
dagr, nótt, svefngaman         ok draum-Njǫrun,
nox, nis, gríma,         njól, myrkfara,
óljós, draum-Vǫr,         émispéríum.

Dœgr, hlýrn ok røkr, díes ok lýsing, dagr, nótt, svefngaman ok draum-Njǫrun, nox, nis, gríma, njól, myrkfara, óljós, draum-Vǫr, émispéríum.

Day and night, sky-light and twilight, dies and daybreak, day, night, dream-joy and dream-Njǫrun <goddess>, nox, nis, mask, darkness, dusk-farer, dark one, dream-Vǫr <goddess>, hemisphere.

readings

[8] émispéríum: ‘eimspernim’ A, ‘e[…]’ B, ‘emispū. .’ 744ˣ

notes

[8] émispéríum ‘hemisphere’: Spelled ‘eimspernim’ in A (= Lat. hemisphaerium). This learned term is found elsewhere in glosses and scientific treatises and may have been borrowed from Old English, where it appears in a C8th or C9th glossary accorded the sense semis circulus ‘semi-circle’ and aer ‘air’ (Hessels 1890, 47), and in the late C10th Ramsey monk Byrhtferð’s Enchiridion (Baker and Lapidge 1995, 150) in a diagram illustrating the phases of the moon. As the explanations of this word in Old English glosses (semis circulus, aer) suggest, it cannot be excluded that the term might originally have belonged to the next þula (Þul Himins II), which lists heiti for ‘heaven’.

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