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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Fog On Goat Rock Beach
Goat Rock State Park: 10 a.m. today. Above: looking south; below: looking north.
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."