Bare island

[Marc Joan]

'On Skye, one recalls that 'bleak' comes from the Old Norse 'bleikr', meaning 'white' or 'shining'; that it is a word through which the bone shows.'

From 'The Wild Places', by Robert Macfarlane.

 

[Richard Turner]

Wonderful - we should all know where our words come from.

 

[Marc Joan]

And Macfarlane has a wonderful way of disinterring them!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Word. Utterance. Wyrd. Destiny.

 

[Marc Joan]

Logos = reasoned discourse (word) and divine animating principle (destiny, or close to it). In the beginning was the Word...and the Word was God.

 

[Richard Turner]

Wyrd as in weird? How did fate become something odd and nasty?

 

[Richard Turner]

Logos = reasoned discourse (word) and divine animating principle (destiny, or close to it). In the beginning was the Word...and the Word was God.

see below. Yes, this is the sort of territory love of words gets you into and I love it!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Wyrd as in weird? How did fate become something odd and nasty?

Yes, wyrd as in weird. Weird didn't originally mean anything derogatory. The Enlightenment did many excellent things but it also had some 'ugly babies'. This may be an instance.

 

[Amber]

Oh. I thought this might be something naughty.

 

[Marc Joan]

Oh. I thought this might be something naughty.

Sorry to disappoint! Can start a separate thread just for you, if you like?

 

[Amber]

Sorry to disappoint! Can start a separate thread just for you, if you like?

No I would never directly encourage such a thing. But thanks anyway.