Proto-Germanic names for provinces part 4: Norway

[@c.m.bellman5721]

can't wait for part three

[@niciesman1419]

I am swith glad you did the film in Anglish. You should do more like it.

[@timmeyer4595]

2:30 Finnamarkō

[@bingusiswatching6335]

YAAYYYY

[@36AccountsBlockedRIP]

Just a wild guess, but could Halogaland be either related to the name Helge/Helgi, specifically the legendary king Halga, whose name in Proto-Norse would have been Hailaga (which would mean 'dedicated to the gods'; in Dutch a direct translation with a noun could be 'heilige' 'holy man/hallowed one'), and thus mean 'Halga's land' -- or could it be simply related to heilig etc. and mean either (in the pagan sense) 'holy land' or 'holy land of the gods'/'holy land dedicated to the gods' (perhaps due to its untouched remoteness and harsh conditions)?

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Your guess is rightful. I initially intended to talk about king Helgi, but somehow I removed it from the final script. There wasn't much to say about this character, as he's mentionned but a few times in the Eddas.

[@36AccountsBlockedRIP]

@@Þeudōrīkē Thanks for your efforts into making your channel as informative and entertaining as it is.

[@MasonMorgen]

Hailanō wuldraweudu alladag -Lēkijaz Drijō andi Snapphundaz.

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Lubōsi nu drauganz? frijōnd, ek þiudijō ne gōdą hwaz sagaisi.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

All sounds like low-Saxon/dutch to me Dutch is the mother of all languages as we all know.

[@ediable8309]

so true

[@Þeudōrīkē]

Northwestern germanic languages, especially low saxon, underwent fewer soundshifts than the others, which explains why it sounds closer to the original language. They're still very different. I have a book about the evolution of Dutch, English and High German through language contact. I'll make a video about it some day.