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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Playing With Clay: Duck-Fish and Company
The duck-fish.
"Mateo" is out of the kiln, but he's not finished. I need to reglaze . . . or take him up north and place him in a tide pool for Poseidon.
My favorite word--garsecg--from the Old English Beowulf is a kenning or poetic riddle-word for the sea. It means "the spear-man," perhaps the echo of a figure like the Norse Aegir or some other surly northern Neptune. In other texts, garsecg seems to be an adjective meaning "sea-like," "stormy" or "tempestuous."