Thread: What is a Gode?
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Old November 17th, 2008, 03:50 PM
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Default Re: What is a Gode?

Further to Seith/Sooth... in words like Soothsayer, I believe the Sooth part is implied to mean truth about the future.

Afterthought: Not knowing much about the nordic languages, I'd assumed kon was similar to the scots ken, meaning roughly 'to know', and therefore a seithkonur was 'one who knows the future'. It's nice to know better.
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