Re[2]: [tied] Wolf, varg

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 38096
Date: 2005-05-26

At 12:21:11 PM on Thursday, May 26, 2005, tgpedersen wrote:

> OK. So Germanic has a word that means "wolf" and also
> metaphorically "criminal",

The evidence suggests that you have it backwards: the wolf
is vargr because it's malign.

Brian