Talk:Mjǫllnir
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Ain92
@Ain92: source for Latvian milna (“hammer of Pērkons”)? Sławobóg (talk) 21:02, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
- Probably not. The association of lightning with a god wielding a hammer is very, very old in at least parts of the Indo-European-speaking world. Who's to say whether Perkūnas or Thor came first, or whether they both came from something earlier? Chuck Entz (talk) 22:36, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Chuck Entz I think they're asking for a source confirming the existence/meaning of the Latvian term milna as given in the etymology on the entry — Mnemosientje (t · c) 08:06, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I can't find any info about Perkunas weapon (axe/hammer) being named Milna. I believe that word has same Indo-European origin (Latvian nor Lithuanian wiktionary doesn't know that word), but it needs confirmation by linguist or latvian mythology scholar. Sławobóg (talk) 16:37, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- That was apparently too obvious for me to see...
- I don't know enough Latvian to interpret it at all well, but the word appears in what looks like a list of Pērkons' attributes at w:lv:Pērkons (mitoloģija)#Latviešu mitoloģijā, which apparently came from here. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:42, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I can't find any info about Perkunas weapon (axe/hammer) being named Milna. I believe that word has same Indo-European origin (Latvian nor Lithuanian wiktionary doesn't know that word), but it needs confirmation by linguist or latvian mythology scholar. Sławobóg (talk) 16:37, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Chuck Entz I think they're asking for a source confirming the existence/meaning of the Latvian term milna as given in the etymology on the entry — Mnemosientje (t · c) 08:06, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Sławobóg: @Chuck Entz: I took it from the Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary. Sorry for the late reply, I more or less left en-WT in favour of more cordial atmosphere of ru-WT. Ain92 (talk) 20:53, 2 December 2019 (UTC)