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Gimmum gelicust – an open letter.

To: The University of Toronto

Dear Sirs,

Thank you. The Old English corpus has arrived most gracefully. It is an immeasurable treasure trove, for the professional Bard, when adapting old words, into modern English – for normalization – into new poetry.

I am fluent in Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, so I am fully aware, that some Scandinavian words are without domestic etymology, indicating “foreign” origin.

Since Old English and Old Norse were seen as same language, in the Middle Ages, I think it is likely, that cross-pollination must have taken place – an oral osmosis – between kindred tongues.

That is the argument, for retrieving Old Norse etymology from Old English and vice-versa. For instance, tun+gol is not transparent in Old Norse, as being preterite of galan. (Chant [gol], in heavenly homestead [tun], is of course music of spheres.)

Bosworth and Toller’s bottom-up kingship collides with the papal top-down kingship. Former is the original, whereas the latter is imperially induced, based on Caesarian deification, in Latin tongue.

When analyzing the Ryne-Stafas (Ælfric’s slip of tongue), we find support for Bosworth and Toller’s position, because a truce will have to feature a sanctuary, to provide safe passage, for women and children.

Logically, a sanctuary can only have ONE undisputed caretaker, with discipline like a captain on a ship, who preferably is kin to all clans, and therefore – as the word says – he is a cyn+ing.

That criterion is an accident of birth, making it necessary to exclude the witless candidates, by providing a process of vetting, an examination by witan, to determine the rightful cyning.

That is the conclusion of the Ryne-Stafas, because fodres unfealdan is a double metaphor, that draws imaginary sword, and makes grassroots grow, drawn from a pebble seed stone.

Present day monarchies are historically bestowed by papal grace, and are today not held accountable, to the original and long forgotten criterion, that is stipulated in the Ryne-Stafas.

To provide an easy introduction to the Ryne-Stafas, I have produced a kindergarten cartoon version. It explains the Jacob’s Ladder, as an image of the sundial, that is a spiral stairway to heaven’s homestead.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/pnz9jpb73u1gfla/druidry-for-dummies.pdf

“Druidry for Dummies” is not an academic work, by any standard, and is not intended that way either. It is only an amazed meditation, on the poetry of the Ryne-Stafas, that are gimmum gelicust.

A scholarly and footnoted work is a future prospect, that is in the making, and to what end, the Old English corpus of Angus Cameron will prove most helpful. Thank you.

Sincerely,
anakephalaiosis

TUNGLA RYNE

Homestead song is sky wide open,
when gods amongst men,
in star wandering
of earthling,
seek heaven home again.

WILD SAXON EA

Saxon river stream is race runner,
in whom God flows wild river,
that springeth forth
out of earth,
in quest for deep water.

HEART OF BEOWULF

Man from Snowy River went Godspeed,
placing all his trust in four feet,
and God, the only one,
was final run,
in free rein of heart steed.