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L O W L A N D S - L - 20 January 2009 - Volume 04<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<span class="ldacoc">Subject: </span><span class="hccdpe">LL-L
"Etymology"</span><br>
<br>
Beste Joachim, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE">You wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="DE"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">De uutdrücke
annerer völker, wan sik iere lüüe in de möüte kuomen, sint wat fründlickeren
oorsprunks, tomindest im latiinsken gefolge:</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Salve, salutazione, ti saluto,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
also wünske for gesuntheyt, passt dan wual stimmiger met dem »cordiale«
tohaupe, wat da na mangens met verbunden werd.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Definitely.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I truly
loooved that wonderful performance of Beowulf that Ron posted earlier on, but
at the same time it does show that horrid and grotesque topics must have
fascinated the minds of our Germanic forefathers. The world it pictures is
so violent, gloomy, grim, moody and vengeful. It sounds as if trouble and
danger were always imminent and few people, if any, could be trusted. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">So I was
thinking to myself, maybe this is just sign of the times, maybe the late second
half of the first millennium was globally a dark era. Therefore I had a brief
look at what other great epic poems in other civilisations were talking about.
Some examples like the story of "One Thousand and One Nights", the
Persian "Shahnameh" and the Hindu "Bhagavata Purana"
clearly show that this is globally not so much the case. Of course, a hero will
be a hero, therefore battles/struggles of some sort will always be around, but
still there seems to be more balance in these Oriental stories. Another one of
them, the Bhattikavya, written in Sanskrit, actually tries to promote the four
aims of human life: righteousness, "wealth and power", pleasure and
"spiritual liberation".</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">On the
other hand, there's an Old English epic story, called "The Battle of
Maldon". One of the keywords, when describing heroic behavior is of course
the word "courage". The hero here, Byrhtnoth, is said to have
had "ofermod" (~ Dutch "overmoed", German
"Übermut"), excessive courage (_not_ "infinite courage"!).
Today, some still refuse to believe that this could have been the original
meaning of the word, as they want to believe that heroic "ofermod" as
such cannot not exist.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Anyway,
Byrthnoth died on the so called field of honor and the Anglo-Saxons lost.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Kind
greetings,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Luc
Hellinckx</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>