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Saturday, December 9, 2017
Comfort Reading Since 1982
Martha Grimes' The Old Fox Deceiv'd.
Classic English mystery penned by American writer:
still counts, still delivers the goods.
Richard Jury, Melrose Plant, Wiggins--
A cast I find so much fun.
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."