#modgunn

[thorraborinn]

Spelling PSA

I know this will seem pedantic but as someone who understands the language, this error is linguistically meaningful and it zaps me in the brain every time I see it.

Some Norse heathens recognize a divine being mistakenly renamed "Mordgud" which means 'god of murder.' I don't know where that "r" came from because the actual name begins móð- 'fury', and this misspelling makes it morð- 'murder.'

The name is actually:

Móð-gunn-r > Móðguðr

The Old Icelandic Móðguðr (probably 'fury-battle', possibly 'weary-battle') is a little weird in that it has a hidden -nn- in it. The root is Móðgunn- and when you add an -r that -nn- becomes -ð-. I know, it's weird, it's really weird, but compare for example the word maðr 'man' (from *mann-az). This is also normal for valkyrie names like Guðr~Gunnr. If Móðguðr appeared more in Norse mythology, we'd see it written Móðgunnr. And when you drop the final -r, as in other declensions of her name, it's Móðgunn.

So I'd submit "Modgunn" as a more appropriate Anglicization.

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So in Helheim Hassle there’s this gatekeeper named Modgunn in the beginning who ends up losing her job at some point over the course of the thousand years Bjørn has been dead

And then while stopping at a café they run into Modgunn who’s been kidnapped by these annoying elves who want to keep her as a pet

Bjørn can get them to adopt a boar instead and then he takes Modgunn and just kinda...keeps her in his inventory

So does she just live with him now?? Or do they talk with Hel about it??? What happened????