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Saturday, October 31, 2015
Getting to Work
Basic kit: pumpkin; knife; scrapper-spoon; pint.
And, I didn't intend this, but doesn't that pumpkin remind you of the cave-troll in the mines of Moria?
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."