{"id":23781,"date":"2019-12-20T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asa-samfundet.se\/the-greeting-phrase-hail\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T14:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:40:28","slug":"the-greeting-phrase-hail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asa-samfundet.se\/en\/the-greeting-phrase-hail\/","title":{"rendered":"The greeting phrase Hail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why we use Hail as a greeting phrase and under bl\u00f3t.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hail is an old greeting word from the Old Swedish word h\u00e6ll (edit: not to be confused with the Old Swedish word heel which was later also spelled hell in swedish before it became h\u00e4l (english heel); foot part).
It is also a bi-form of the word h\u0113l which means whole, whole-born etc and which later became the Icelandic word heill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, when we say \u2018Hail to you<\/em>\u2019 it is like the Danish hil dir. It then means something like \u2018be greeted<\/em>\u2019. But as an adjective, the word h\u00e6l also means happiness and health.
So you can compare our hell with the two Latin colloquial greetings salv\u0113 which comes from the word salvus and which means healthy, whole and the word ave which was a Roman colloquial greeting and which means hail. This word was later also mostly used in (Christian) religious contexts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in older times it was a greeting phrase synonymous with good day etc.
Because there were no words corresponding to the later greetings good morning\/good day\/good evening until around the middle of the Middle Ages.
And it took even longer, until the 19th century, for the swedish G\u00f6tiska F\u00f6rbundet to start using our word \u2018hej\u2019 (english: hello) as a greeting phrase here. But the word hej comes from the Old Swedish hei and is found in texts such as hey\/hei\/h\u00e4y etc. from the 16th century, but then with a completely different meaning: it was an expression of cheerfulness and joy, much like the word hurrah, but it was also an expression of protest, pain etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the use of the word hail changed in the Middle Ages like many other words and then only came to be used more reverently in mainly biblical, poetic or ceremonial contexts and in relation to royalty. But its original meaning was as a greeting phrase, in both Germanic languages and in the Latin language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hail is mentioned on several occasions in our ancient writings. For example: <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1vam\u00e1l:
<\/strong>2 Hail, ye Givers!<\/em> a guest is come;<\/em>
say! where shall he sit within?<\/em>
Much pressed is he<\/em> who fain on the hearth<\/em>
would seek for warmth and weal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigrdr\u00edfum\u00e1l \u2013 The Lay of Sigrdrifa<\/strong>
3. “Hail, day!<\/em> Hail, sons of day!<\/em>
Hail Natt and her daughter now!<\/em>
Look on us<\/em> here with loving eyes,<\/em>
That waiting we victory win.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. “Hail to the gods! Ye goddesses, Hail,<\/em>
Hail to you, gracious J\u00f6rd!<\/em>
Give to us wisdom and goodly speech,<\/em>
And healing hands, life-long.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Contact details or if you want to get involved
E-mail: info@asa-samfundet.se
Tel: +46 (0)8-519 70 720<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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