Friday, July 19th, 2019
‘Angel’ translates the word mal'akh in Hebrew, which is a particular kind of messenger. The Hebrew word can refer to either spiritual beings or material, but our translations only use ‘angel’ for the spiritual kind. In the Bible they are never said to have wings but are described as being ...
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
In continuing the Beowulf translation I came to ll. 3074f which are described as a locus desperatus in Klaeber in a long note (pp. 266 f.) There is no agreed upon solution to the problems of the text - which do not seem to be errors in transcription or copying, but in ...
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