Allies - The Halr
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Limpin Legin
Cosmic Mongoose
Hi, presumably you are referring to this Update (?):
You could follow Mongoose on Kickstarter, and wait and see if they redo your pdf , although I'm not sure that would look like because "allies" is a word used reasonably frequently in the Training & GM's Guides, and Data Forge. If you have the pdf versions of these, you could conceivably search them for "allies" and read what is said. "Allies" appears to mean "friend" rather than foe, in SM.
"The Halr" just means "The Harbour" in Norwegian. Maybe that is a pun on the company's Kickstarter obligations, rather anything to do with a specific SM character class or god. IDK, maybe someone will reply here and enlighten.
You could follow Mongoose on Kickstarter, and wait and see if they redo your pdf , although I'm not sure that would look like because "allies" is a word used reasonably frequently in the Training & GM's Guides, and Data Forge. If you have the pdf versions of these, you could conceivably search them for "allies" and read what is said. "Allies" appears to mean "friend" rather than foe, in SM.
"The Halr" just means "The Harbour" in Norwegian. Maybe that is a pun on the company's Kickstarter obligations, rather anything to do with a specific SM character class or god. IDK, maybe someone will reply here and enlighten.
Give us a few days and we will see if we can get that up on our site!
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
Nope.
Well, lots of dialects for such a little country (I blame mountains and fjords and stubbornness) so maybe somewhere, but though I am far from a qualified linguist, I'm pretty sure halr is old Norse for 'man'. (I would have guessed 'tail', but I would have been wrong).
Limpin Legin
Cosmic Mongoose
Well, the difference could be that you are talking about Old Norse and I was referring to modern Norwegian. I confess knowing much less language than the Scandinavian people. My only credential is that I am tech savvy enough to use Bing Translator. I relied upon it because this should be an easy translation, as words like 'harbour' and 'man' are not complex phrases, and the words should have one-to-one equivalent meanings between the two languages.
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
I should just drop the subject, but modern Norwegian is my first language (or at least the idiosyncratic dialect I was raised with), so my first reaction was, 'huh, that's a new one' and them my second, having had to learn some old Norse and Icelandic a long time ago to pass a test was '"those lr endings are typical of archaic (one offense meant to Icelanders) language."
So maybe Bing is still inferior to Google? I don't know. These days I can just wave my iPhone at Chinese labels and I can get an app to give me something plausible, but I I have no idea if it's right.... or even if it's actually Chinese for that matter.
Limpin Legin
Cosmic Mongoose
I wouldn't want to deny you your intelligence or your affinity with your own mother tongue. I could dispute Google or Bing as unintelligent - but a one-to-one word mapping of two "widely used words"? Should be easy for a computer to arrive at an acceptable answer. Here:
Geir
Emperor Mongoose
Still wrong. Not your fault, but Bing's.
Try it with Google. Or search for 'halr' and see what comes up.
Just to check sanity, I used co-pilot thinking the might be some cross-contamination but:
Cool Thank you
The website I took it from (vikingsofbjornstad) translates it as 'Man, hero (m)' for reference
Limpin Legin
Cosmic Mongoose
Bing must be læging at this . The Mythical *halr* now reveals itself according to a voice with it's own factual origins.
The final task is to find the word for harbour, now it had entered the discussion. *Harbour* is given as höfn, or hǫfn, i.e., is similar to the Icelandic.
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