[l6 March 2003

[I Think the references are to this Olafr-fellow who seems to incur so much
trouble and mayhem, and all of it in just the first four lessons or so! In
lesson one an unspecified regicide (by a ghost) begins the English-language
component of the festivities (not to mention an aggressive murder of a wolf
by an elf...nasty bastard!). Whereas we are next given 'a' king called
Olafr; in the following ON-section HE stands revealed as a maniac and pest
to the environment; after first reducing a second wolf, this ornament misses
the bus on a snake and gets his fool self killed (good, good...).
Consequently, at the end of section three, a rival franchise-holder in the
kinging business (this bird Sigurdr, with his tatty little sword!) lets
Olafr have it again (with said sword) and hives off with his ('Olafr's')
horse. All this jollity in lesson l alone, mind you....
[As to these fool dwarves and their incessant tergiversations on the
matter of cheese (lesson 4, qv), it may that it is somewhat on the order of
the craving for 'msg', or chocolate, which gives people sick headaches,
afterward. A food craving is often specfically a perverse form of allergic
'back-formation'. Hence dairy-products and dwarves; I expect that the
latter are in fact a lot of wretched constipands who should have NOTHING to
do milk-products. It gives them all the gas! (Whereas in the impoverished
Smaland of my great-grandfather, I KNOW from family-stories that Tomten was
by no means as snotty or choosy; and;, he was just glad there was ANYTHING
at Yule most years! On the rare year when there even would be cheese, why,
he would stir slices of it into hot grautr (with any bits of dried apple he
could cadge!), and it was altogether of a most regularising effect.

[AND, That's that! Bodwyn Wook]

>From: Josh Geller <dclxvi@...>
>Reply-To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
>To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [norse_course] OLD NORSE FOR BEGINNERS comments (by everyone's
>favorite pre-teen! ha ha)
>Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:15:31 +0000 (GMT)
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>On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Teja Johnson-Lewis wrote:
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> > Anyone else here think the many deaths of King Olaf is funny? Ha ha.
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>You mean the several incarnations of Olaf Geirstadalf or something else?
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>Context, please!
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