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Monday, April 2, 2018
Catch-and-Release
Odd sensory memories surfacing from 2016
while I was working through a stack or two of paperwork:
a rat so very gingerly swimming past my kayak in the canals of Venice;
a bat so very gently rebounding from my chest in a castle in Scotland.
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."