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Monday, December 26, 2011
Radagast and Lucky, Working
Radagast: brown clay; unglazed.
Lucky the Reindeer: sculpture mix; brown and blue glazing.
I broke Lucky, by accident and before he had a name, on the way from the garage to the studio, but I decided to bisque and glaze him anyway. You never know what you'll get.
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."