This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...again. 8. offaet: until, i.e. I am longer until I shoot again. 24. Magpie See sheet of figures. Diet, showed that the runes arranged make the word higora, glossed in lfric's time as picus (woodpecker). There is terrible confusion among commentators about the meaning of higora, which Diet, identified with Ger. Haher, ... Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...again. 8. offaet: until, i.e. I am longer until I shoot again. 24. Magpie See sheet of figures. Diet, showed that the runes arranged make the word higora, glossed in lfric's time as picus (woodpecker). There is terrible confusion among commentators about the meaning of higora, which Diet, identified with Ger. Haher, jay, and which is variously translated ' magpie, ' 'jay, ' 'woodpecker." Prehn (who has quite a genius for being wrong) chooses ' woodpecker, ' which is impossible here. The Lat. picus, woodpecker, would seem to have been confounded with pica, magpie. A little natural history is wanted, and that we are not likely to get from monkish Latin glossaries. Probably the poet wai singing here, as in nearly all the riddles, about something quite familiar to him and his audience, and was not likely to confound the magpie (Corvui pica Lin.) with the jay Corvui glandarius. Lin.) or the woodpecker (Picm viridis). To my mind it b pretty certain that what is intended is the beautiful bird, once the farmer's friend and the cheery companion of the homestead in England as elsewhere, but now, alas! through slander and persecution become rare--the magpie, the bird which can learn to imitate the cry of almost any animal, and which from its beauty, familiarity and tamableness, wat much more likely to attract the attention of the scop than the shy and characterless jay or woodpecker. 7. glado: see Introduction: The Gender of x. 25This riddle has had the misfortune to arouse contention. Tupper (p. 104 (2)) says: " Another riddle by Scaliger ( Reusner I. 190), cannabis, gives in every line a reason for accepting ' Hemp' as an answer to the misleading Nicholas Reusner, ALnigmatographia 1ive Syllogc JEnigmatum st Griphorum Convivalium, Frankfort 1602. E. B-R. xxv., ... Read Less
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