Thread:KnaboKnehtaz/@comment-3391671-20171112120704/@comment-28254399-20171114204500

As for Odin's epithet Bǫlverkr: If I calque it into English, I'll have Bale-work(e), meaning "evil-doer". from possibly Proto-Germanic *Balwô-werkaz. Through regular sound-change, PG suffix -az yields Old Norse -r but Old English -e; however, English speakers added suffix -ere into verbal stem wyrc-, yielding modern "worker".