From: Blanc Voden
Message: 6974
Date: 2006-08-31
>interest
> A note on this word ærið I have just heard from Grace of her
> in our mutual difficulty with the word and Grace did suggest thatit
> might have a relationship with the word used to mean "Honour" .friendly
> I have found an entry in the supplement of CV that had the word -
> ærr-lauss - without honour - since neither Grace nor myself have
> the notion that it has anything to do with sheep
> It seems in the beginning of the chapter that Thjostolf - our
> neighbourhood homicidal maniac is protesting his going in searchof the
> wethers along of Glum's servants whom he calls Thralls thenGrace's idea
> will be in the right direction - it is beneath this man's over-estimated dignity
> to go searching for sheep.
> But ærið is definitely not in the book
> I am feeling a trifle sheepish that I had not noticed this before
> Patricia
>