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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Stone, Blue
Lover's Point, Pacific Grove, CA: April 2, 2011.
I was ducking beneath a wave, and I decided to take a photo while I was down there anyway.
(Once again, looking through old photo files pays off.)
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."