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Here's this week's Patreon Vocabulary video, accompanied by your usual one-week-in-advance Old Norse lesson: lesson no. 7, on the most frequent and most anomalous of nouns, maðr 'man, person.'

As will probably become a usual practice, I have removed lesson no. 6 from being visible to you on Youtube in preparation for its being posted publicly later this week. However, if you missed it on Youtube and want to watch it before Friday, I have posted lesson 6 here for Patreon supporters on my backup Vimeo channel. By the way, if any of you like or prefer Vimeo over Youtube, please follow my channel there--I post most videos there the same day as on Youtube, and many of my "classic" older videos have been uploaded there slowly over the course of months as a hedge against something happening to my channel or to Youtube.

Lastly, even though there's no guest but me and it promises to be a pretty "casual" Crowdcast, we do have a Patreon Crowdcast this Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. U.S. Mountain Time. Because we never had a Crowdcast with more than 50 attendees, I stopped paying for the plan that allowed up to 100, just in time for this one to be close to reaching my new plan's maximum of 50. That's how it goes with these things.

Thank you for another week of your generous support. I hope everyone's safe, happy, and well out there, and as always, I'm wishing you the very best.

Jackson Crawford

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Patreon Vocabulary 29: From Old Norse Lesson 7 (Maðr)

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Anonymous

mann in rune stone reading means support/needs/no longer needed - perhaps man question his self reliability?

Anonymous

May i ask where the word “ver/verr” for mate/man fits inn? I’m thinking about the Icelandic rune poem with Thurs....

norsebysw

It's a reasonably common word for "man," and unlike 'maðr' it always unambigously means "male human being." Its most common use is in referring to a husband (e.g. 'Sifjar verr' in poetry = Thor), though it can be used in a lot of other contexts too. It's the same word as the archaic English 'were' in words like "werewolf" (man-wolf) and "weregild" (man-payment).