Titel: Can anyone read this?
Skrivet av: Mark Hoenig skrivet 2008-09-20, 02:06
Yes - I thought the English word for absolution derived from the idea of washing away sins or becoming pure (confusing absolution with ablution :-) ), but the word shrive in English comes for the word for scribe instead. I thought I had read earlier that this was related to the Indulgences that were written out absolving people of their sins - and, coincidentaly, part of what Martin Luther protested. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence). However, I can't find that source again, so I don't want to make another false statement. The english word shrive is Middle English, from Old English scrifan to shrive, prescribe, (akin to Old High German scriban to write), from Latin scribere to write. (Webster) I hope I won't be making too dangerous a guess that the Swedish skriva has the same roots.