See blota on Wiktionary
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{
"form": "blotande",
"source": "conjugation",
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"participle",
"past",
"present"
]
},
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"6": "blotade",
"7": "supine",
"8": "blotat",
"9": "imperative",
"head": ""
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"expansion": "blota (present blotar, preterite blotade, supine blotat, imperative blota)",
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"Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish",
"Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
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"english": "The response Halfdan gets from the powers, to whom he sacrificed, is that in his family there shall not for three hundred years be born a woman or a fameless man.",
"ref": "1889, Viktor Rydberg, Undersökningar i germanisk mythologi [Investigations into Germanic Mythology], volume 1, Albert Bonniers förlag, accessed at Runeberg.org, courtesy of Harvard Library, University of Virginia Library & Google Books, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2025:",
"text": "[Det] svar Halfdan får från makterna, till [vilka] han blotat, är att […] i hans ätt skall under tre hundra år ingen kvinna och ingen obetydande man födas.",
"translation": "The response Halfdan gets from the powers, to whom he sacrificed, is that in his family there shall not for three hundred years be born a woman or a fameless man.",
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"english": "We sacrificed to the sea god for a safe journey home.",
"ref": "1945, Frans G. Bengtsson, Röde Orm [The Long Ships], Norstedt & Söners förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2025:",
"text": "[Vi] blotade till havsguden för lycklig hemfärd.",
"translation": "We sacrificed to the sea god for a safe journey home.",
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"english": "A blót house is a pagan building where one sacrifices—that is, offers—to the gods.",
"ref": "2016, Lars Lönnroth, transl., Den poetiska Eddan [The Poetic Edda], Atlantis, →ISBN, page 494:",
"text": "[Ett] blothus [är en] hednisk byggnad där man blotar – det vill säga offrar – till gudarna.",
"translation": "A blót house is a pagan building where one sacrifices—that is, offers—to the gods.",
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"to sacrifice"
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"ipa": "/ˈbluːˌta/"
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"word": "blota"
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