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littlemanpoet · 04-12-2007, 08:09 PM

On some computers, alt + '----' - that is, four numbers, results in a great variety of fascinating alternatives. For example:

alt + 0237 = í
alt + 0251 = û

and so forth.

Back to the topic of Anglo-Saxon deities, which was the original question (what deity would be equivalent in Anglo-Saxon to Mars?). The Church seems to have wiped out much of our knowledge in that regard. However, I recall in my reading of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, that there were references to Anglo-Saxon deities that I had never heard of before nor since. In chapter 30, the Saxon Ulrica commits suicide by burning herself in a tower; while the flames consume it, she is singing a Scald, a dire song that includes this:

Light the torch, Zernebock is yelling!

I don't know who this is, but he apparenlty has to do with fire.

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04-12-2007, 08:09 PM	#34
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	On some computers, alt + '----' - that is, four numbers, results in a great variety of fascinating alternatives. For example: alt + 0237 = í alt + 0251 = û and so forth. Back to the topic of Anglo-Saxon deities, which was the original question (what deity would be equivalent in Anglo-Saxon to Mars?). The Church seems to have wiped out much of our knowledge in that regard. However, I recall in my reading of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, that there were references to Anglo-Saxon deities that I had never heard of before nor since. In chapter 30, the Saxon Ulrica commits suicide by burning herself in a tower; while the flames consume it, she is singing a Scald, a dire song that includes this: Light the torch, Zernebock is yelling! I don't know who this is, but he apparenlty has to do with fire.