Re: Skelfr askr?

--- In norse_course@..., "Eysteinn Bjornsson" <eysteinn@...> wrote:

>
> So, one more example of an academic who slept through his Old
> Norse grammar classes, I'm afraid. There isn't, and never was,
> such a kenning for the mead as "wave of the sibyl Heiðr". This
> ludicrous idea is simply a figment of the fertile imagination
> of an poorly qualified academic with a bee in her bonnet. But
> unfortunately that doesn't prevent it from being flogged as
> "Old Norse scholarship" in certain circles.

Gee, I can't understand how neither Professor Motz nor the editors of
Arkiv för nordisk filologi--perhaps the foremost academic journal in
its field, where this piece was published--thought to stop by your
shop and get themselves straightened out. Or who knows, maybe
scholarship just looks different to actual scholars. LOL!

regards,
rorik