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Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Bottle-of-Dreams
That's Chloe, by the way, a dancer of Atlantis, so click the link to know more.
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."