place
Hill
A rise of ground shorter than mountain-speech. Not mountain as the high mass, and not mound as a built heap alone.
Nahua tradition
Hill appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records hills and rises among landscape and local cult heights shorter than great mountains — named hills as place-speech. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific
Norse tradition
Hill appears in Norse tradition.
Poetic Edda landscape and howe speech names hills and rises among the ground of meetings and burials. A named hill landform in that verse corpus, not mountain as the high mass already walked and not mound as a built heap alone.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
appears in · sourced · documented
sources
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
- Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.