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Proto-Norse
Etymology
Kenning of *ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᛉ (*walhaʀ, “Gaul, Roman; southern foreigner”) + *ᚲᛟᚱᚾᚨ (*korna, “grain”).
Noun
ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨᚲᚢᚱᚾᛖ (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.
Usage notes
- 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.