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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Comfort Before Revising


Posted by Matt Duckworth at 5:16 PM
Labels: American, Books, Fantasy, History, Irish, Kushner and Sherman, McIlvanney, Mystery, Reading, Scottish, Whiskey, William Gibson
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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."


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