ausa vatni (3)
ausa vatni
sprinkling of water (en.)
The entry for ausa vatni in Cleasby Vigfusson states that it "is a standing phrase for a sort of baptism used in the last centuries, at least, of the heathen age. The child when born was sprinkled with water and named, yet without the intervention of a priest; this rite is mentioned as early as in the Hávamál, one of the very oldest mythological didactic poems on record, where it is attributed even to Odin."
sprinkling of water (en.)
The entry for ausa vatni in Cleasby Vigfusson states that it "is a standing phrase for a sort of baptism used in the last centuries, at least, of the heathen age. The child when born was sprinkled with water and named, yet without the intervention of a priest; this rite is mentioned as early as in the Hávamál, one of the very oldest mythological didactic poems on record, where it is attributed even to Odin."
