From: rorik@...
Message: 1606
Date: 2001-10-28
>Gee, I can't understand how neither Professor Motz nor the editors of
> 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.