The register rules: Logi
The internet spells Logi more ways than one, and only one of them is the name the sources wrote. This is the register's ruling — canonical, fallback, contested, and false, each in its proper place.
At a Glance
- Canonical form: Logi
- Original script: ᛚᚢᚴᛁ
- Pantheon: Norse
- Convention: normalized Old Norse spelling — þ, ð, ǫ, æ and length marks preserved as the editions print them
- False forms on record: 0
- Contested forms: none attested
- Series: The Canonical Register, No. 207 of 397
The Canonical Form
The attested form is ᛚᚢᚴᛁ, from the tradition's own record. The canonical transliteration is Logi.
No diacritics are required here: the canonical form is the exactness of the spelling itself, the form normalized Old Norse spelling — þ, ð, ǫ, æ and length marks preserved as the editions print them demands.
Where the Flattened Form Stands
The plain form logi differs from the canonical Logi only by convention of display — case, not content. It is acceptable everywhere: in legacy systems, in plain-text citation, in the DNS itself. What is not acceptable is what follows in the register: respellings that change the letters, not just their case.
The Register of False Forms
No circulating form of this name currently qualifies as false under the register's standard — a rare standing. The spelling is short, sturdy, and rarely mangled.
The Contested Forms
No alternate form of this name carries documented scholarly support in the lexicon's record. The convention here — normalized Old Norse spelling — þ, ð, ǫ, æ and length marks preserved as the editions print them — produces exactly one defensible transliteration: Logi. Forms that differ from it are not contested; they are simply wrong.
The Convention's Own History
Old Norse orthography is a primary source in itself: þ (thorn) and ð (eth) are letters the language used natively, not transliteration marks — English once had them too, and lost them. ǫ (o with ogonek) is a nasal vowel with its own saga-era history, and normalized Old Norse spelling preserves it because the Eddas' editors do. To write th for þ or o for ǫ is not modernization; it is a different spelling of a different word. The Eddic poems survive in one manuscript tradition each — the register spells the names the way those manuscripts do.
What the Address Bar Allows
IDNA 2008 permits the letters these restorations use — macrons, acutes, underdots, thorn, ogonek, the lot — and the DNS carries them as punycode (`xn--` labels). Two honest constraints remain. First, registrar inventory: the protocol permits a character; the registrar's stock decides whether the exact domain can be bought today. Second, combined marks: forms like Apṓllōn (acute stacked on a macron) are philologically ideal yet effectively untypeable on phones and unsupported across much of the registration system.
That is why the rulebook keeps a fallback hierarchy — full restoration first, then the circumflex when the source carries one, then the macron-only academic standard, then an attested variant, and only as a last resort the plain ASCII form. Every step down the ladder is still defensible; nothing on the ladder is a wrong mark. A fallback is a choice among attested forms. A false form is not on the ladder at all.
Where the Name Stood First
Logi is a textual figure in the strictest sense: his attestations are the Snorra Edda manuscripts — Codex Regius (GKS 2367 4to), Codex Wormianus, Codex Upsaliensis — together with the þulur, the rhymed name-lists appended to the Prose Edda, which keep the common noun logi among the heiti for fire, and the Fornjótr genealogy of Hversu Noregr byggðist in the Flateyjarbók. No runic inscription names him, no place-name is securely his, and no cult could attach to a figure who is, by definition, an element rather than a person. His material context is the fire itself: the hearth-centered longhouse, the cremation pyres of the Late Iron Age, and the wildfire of the northern forests — the villieldr Snorri names as the truth behind the illusion. The temple on the web is the newest of these addresses — the first one that fits in a pocket.
The Verdict
The register rules for Logi, and the ruling is checkable: every mark sourced, every violation stated, every borderline form given its honest standing. logi carries the name freely — it differs only in display, and the register says so without reservation. Anything else in circulation has its origin and its failure recorded above. That is the whole of the law on this name — and the temple at /sites/logi/ enforces it.
The docket for this ruling: no false forms on the docket; no contested forms attested; the attestation rests on 10 cited sources — Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda: Gylfaginning (the Útgarða-Loki journey; the eating contest and its unmasking; Brodeur translation), Gylfaginning, Old Norse text (Guðni Jónsson edition), chs. 44–47, Skáldskaparmál, Old Norse text (the kennings for wind; the sons of Fornjótr).
The Register Continues
The register holds 397 entries like this one — each temple with its own ruling. Read the temple's founding dispatch for the story, its Restoration File for the philology, its Resonance File for the industries, or the whole archive end to end.
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The Canonical Register is written from the same canonical record as the lexicon itself. If a false form is missing from this page, it is because the evidence does not support calling it false — or because we have not seen it yet. Show us, with a citation, and the register will answer.