Post by GoetzKluge on Mar 29, 2015 4:16:39 GMT -5
== Fit ==
Look for "fihtea" (pronounced as "fiçtæɑ"?) in the Wikipedia article about the epic poem Heliand: "... The suspicion of some earlier scholars that the Praefatio and the Versus might be a modern forgery is refuted by the occurrence of the word vitteas, which is the Old Saxon fihtea, corresponding to the Old English fitt, which means a canto of a poem. ..." (Kudos to Thomas Stockinger for telling me.)
"Fit has the double meaning of a convulsion and a canto." (Martin Gardner, "The Annotated Snark" in "The Hunting of the Snark", W. Kaufmann edition 1981, p. 19, footnote 3)
Look for "fihtea" (pronounced as "fiçtæɑ"?) in the Wikipedia article about the epic poem Heliand: "... The suspicion of some earlier scholars that the Praefatio and the Versus might be a modern forgery is refuted by the occurrence of the word vitteas, which is the Old Saxon fihtea, corresponding to the Old English fitt, which means a canto of a poem. ..." (Kudos to Thomas Stockinger for telling me.)
"Fit has the double meaning of a convulsion and a canto." (Martin Gardner, "The Annotated Snark" in "The Hunting of the Snark", W. Kaufmann edition 1981, p. 19, footnote 3)