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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>(And I'm amused to discover that there's an archaic
> >> English <lune>, used only in the plural to mean 'fits of
> >> frenzy or lunacy; mad freaks or tantrums'.)
>
There is Icelandic "lyndi", Norwegian "lynde", Sw. "lynne" = "mood"
Swedish adjective "lynnig", "having changeable, unforeseeable fits of
different kinds of mood (sadness, rage ...), intemperate."
Cf.
http://runeberg.org/svetym/ p.432 and
SAOB
http://g3.spraakdata.gu.se/saob/
This might be related to English medieval "lunes".
Lars