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Thursday, March 6, 2014
Grief's Visage?
Weird brother to go with the weird sisters in Macbeth this week?
Or, Grief's Visage?
Hollow-eyed and empty-mouthed?
Can you hear the wailing?
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."