Re: List limits, and Passover/Easter

At 07:03 28.4.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
> >On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Barry Garcia wrote:
> >
> >> course last semester. We were going over Norse gods and goddesses, and
> >> when we came to Idun, my professor made a less than subtle hint that Idun,
> >> and Eden are related in some way (now, he may be right, but i have my
> >> doubts).
Especially as it is only in modern English one can get the notion that they
are pronounced the same ['i:d@n]!  Hopefully even anglophones who have
actually studied ON write _Iðunn_ and pronounce it ['IDUn].  BTW it should
just as well be spelled _Ithunn_ in English to avoid this nonsense.  I
don't have the foggiest how _Eden_ should be pronounced or spelled, but I
guess Steg has...

> >May whatever is Holy save us from comparative mythologists and their
> >attempts as philology.
>
>AMEN!
>
>Ray.
Svaahaa!  (*esu-dheH)





/BP

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