'the shining Vandal'), from a stem * wandila- ('beard'), or else compared to a Norse word for sword. In less frequent scholarly interpretations, the second element has also been derived by some researchers from * wanđilaz (' Vandal' i.e. Fee, this may imply the idea a phallic figure related to fertility, the name of his spouse in the Old Norse myth, Gróa, literally meaning 'Growth'. ON aurr 'wet clay, mud', OE ēar 'earth'), with Aurvandill being rendered as 'gravel-beam' or 'swamp-wand'. Īlternatively, the Old Norse prefix aur- has also been interpreted as coming from Proto-Germanic * aura- ('mud, gravel, sediment' cf. This theory is encouraged by the Old English association of the idea of 'rising light' with Ēarendel, whose name has been translated as 'radiance, morning star', or as 'dawn, ray of light'. ON aurr 'gold', OE ēar 'wave, sea'), and * -wandilaz from * wanđuz ('rod, cane' cf. The most semantically plausible explanation is to interpret * Auza-wandilaz as a compound meaning 'light-beam' or 'ray of light', by deriving the prefix * auza- from Proto-Germanic * auzom ('shiny, shiny liquid' cf. The original meaning of the Common Germanic name remains obscure. The Gothic word auzandil, translating the Koine Greek ἑωσφόρος ( eosphoros, 'dawnbringer'), may also be related. It is cognate with Old English Ēarendel, Old High German Aurendil (≈ Orentil), and Lombardic Auriwandalo. The Old Norse name Aurvandill stems from a Proto-Germanic form reconstructed as * Auza-wandilaz, * Auzi-wandalaz, or * Auzo-wandiloz. However, the German and – to a lesser extent – the Old Danish evidence remain difficult to interpret in this model. Comparative studies of the various myths where the figure is involved have led scholars to reconstruct a Common Germanic mythical figure named * Auza-wandilaz, which seems to have personified the 'rising light' of the morning, possibly the Morning Star ( Venus). An Old Danish Latinized version, Horwendillus (Ørvendil), is also the name given to the father of Amlethus (Amleth) in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. In wider medieval Germanic-speaking cultures, he was known as Ēarendel in Old English, Aurendil in Old High German, Auriwandalo in Lombardic, and possibly as auzandil in Gothic. In Norse mythology, the god Thor tosses Aurvandill's toe – which had frozen while the thunder god was carrying him in a basket across the Élivágar rivers – into the sky to form a star called Aurvandils-tá ('Aurvandill's toe'). "For by his rain of blows he destroyed Koll's shield"Īurvandill ( Old Norse) is a figure in Germanic mythology.
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