The same root appears in regret. To regret is to feel sorry over the pain that you have caused others. It's one of those French borrowings that secretly is a Germanic word.

@@hermannkreitmayer that's probably related to grin/groan

@@servantofaeie1569 Oh, probably Kygo or someone like that.

Slag is the stoney matter left behind when one purifies iron. Ref: my son is a blacksmith.

"ur-" as in "urvater" isn't the same word as "ur" the rune name. It's unrelated either to the rain meaning or the aurochs meaning.

it's debatable that the runes came through the alps

Woah! That does sound similar

Exploring this more. From the (Brodeur translation) Gylfaginning 1-10: ""The streams called Ice-waves, those which were so long come from the fountain-heads that the yeasty venom upon them had hardened like the slag that runs out of the fire,--these then became ice; and when the ice halted and ceased to run, then it froze over above. But the drizzling rain that rose from the venom congealed to rime, and the rime increased, frost over frost, each over the other, even into Ginnungagap, the Yawning Void." Then spake Jafnhárr: "Ginnungagap, which faced toward the northern quarter, became filled with heaviness, and masses of ice and rime, and from within, drizzling rain and gusts; but the southern part of the Yawning Void was lighted by those sparks and glowing masses which flew out of Múspellheim." And Thridi said: "Just as cold arose out of Niflheim, and all terrible things, so also all that looked toward Múspellheim became hot and glowing; but Ginnungagap was as mild as windless air, and when the breath of heat met the rime, so that it melted and dripped, life was quickened from the yeast-drops, by the power of that which sent the heat, and became a man's form. And that man is named Ymir, but the Rime-Giants call him Aurgelimir; and thence are come the races of the Rime-Giants...." and on to the cow: "Straightway after the rime dripped, there sprang from it the cow called Audumla; four streams of milk ran from her udders, and she nourished Ymir..." Note these two lines in particular: "The streams called Ice-waves, those which were so long come from the fountain-heads that the yeasty venom upon them had hardened like the slag that runs out of the fire..." The original word that has been translated to english here as "slag", is "sindr". Literally dross. The part that follows the above quoted section is this: "these then became ice; and when the ice halted and ceased to run, then it froze over above. But the drizzling rain that rose from the venom congealed to rime, and the rime increased..." These are both part of the same cosmic origin narrative given in Gylfaginning 5 through 6. It pretty clearly spells out a cow being formed from from dross (sindr) which itself was formed from rain. This explanation covers all the meanings described in the rune poems, in a very logical straightforward way, without the addition of speculative interpretation. The meaning of the word, "ur-" is "primal, original".

No, Sparta is in Greece. They were Greeks. The Vikings were Scandinavians and came over 1000 years later.

they are both indo european cultures but that's really it, later the vikings would be employed by the byzantine empire which included greece

@@Sindraug25 Thanks captain obvious, lots of people migrated in that 1000 years.

@@nedau Don't ask a question if you don't want the answer.

@@Sindraug25 dude, you are a troll. Who the hell doesn't know that there is 1000 years between vikings and spartains. The only reason you replied at all is to be cheeky and cute. You are neither.

we are from the steppes of western eurasia we had cattle before we moved north, also yes there were cows that far north, we don't have any wild relatives because they're extinct

@@cecilrhodes1057 Yes you are right. Domestic cattle is a common thing in the north even in the Iron age. I referred to the Ure witch is a wild ancestor wich never existed in Norway, Ireland and Iceland. The Ure was far more muscular and wild and had much bigger horns. So comparing them It's like comparing a husky and a wolf. So fehu and uruz are not the same animal. Aurochs existed in England up to the late bronce age but survived in continental Europe up to the late medieval period. Sorry for my bad English