Dear Lazyweb...

[lwood]

In Old Norse (Modern Icelandic, etc.), how would one cobble together a by-name for Odin on a train? In the spirit of "Vegtam" (Way-Tame), I was thinking one could do tolerably well with "Iron Horse Rider".

Thoughts?

-- Lorrie

Comments

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

It's ok, I went there too.

("I have had it with these motherfucking jotnar on this motherfucking train!")

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Jötnar wouldn't scan.

Wyrms, now, would not only scan but be in the ballpark. 8-)

-- Lorrie

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* So it would, so it would. That's what I get for trying to be literary-creative after hours of debugging on very little sleep.

Though! Have you seen Serpentes on a Shippe?

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I have! I love Chaucer's blog!

Even more fun is having dpaxson read the entries in her very best Middle ENglish accent: her MA in Medieval Lit. is suddenly useful. 8-)

-- Lorrie

[keristor.livejournal.com]

??!?!?!??!!??!??!?!!!???!???!!!

(As Woodstock would say...)

No way am I going to read that at worke ore whyn othyre folkes be aronde, yt ys too funy!