Now for the linguistic angle: the "r" at the end is a specific form of the name. Unfortunately I cannot remember exactly what it means, but it only shows up in specific uses in sentences I think. Making myself understood in English is problem enough for me! lol You mentioned German. I too...

However a check in the elder edda shows that Gungne is described as Odin's sword in the comments to one of the poems. The spear itself is never actually described in the poems. But everywhere I check on the net it is described as a spear. As far as I can tell, Odin's spear is not called <I>Gungnir<...

Huh! I had assumed the site said the same thing to all of us.

Hellfire! Hell and blood!

Yeah, that would be:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

It says "The time now is Sat Feb 15, 2003 11:16 pm", and there are 8 of us online right now!! That's the most I've seen at once.

I do not think that you would find a lot of people that knows what gungnir is, as a matter of fact I am not certain myself but if I had to guess I would say that is was Odin's spear, the one that never misses. If you had to guess, you'd be right. :) In conclusion I would have to say that they are o...

I'm curious about how popular the Viking mythology is in Norway today. I don't imagine it's a required subject in school, but do most people know a bit about the topic? Do most Norwegians know what <I>Gungnir</I> is? I've heard that the language of Iceland is exactly as it was when the Vikings settl...

Here we go! A ship that size couldn't stop or turn around in less than a mile or so, and the lifeboats would need additional time to locate me at dusk in a rough sea. Yet I knew they would find me if I managed to keep afloat. A wave swept over me, but I shook the white belt of hair out of my eyes an...

I grok this one!

I don't know much music trivia, so I never heard about it. But my guess would have been Schubert's <I>Die Schone Mullerin</I>. (Sorry, I can't do umlauts. Assuming that's how you spell that word. )

You're right, of course. Go for it vt53.

Anyway I feel that your argument really depends on the assumption that there was a limited space for lore in the first ward. This may not be true at all, the first ward could contain everything which Kevin had not decided to move to the other wards. You make a rather fantastic point. Fantastic for ...

Sylvanus wrote:I usually smell something before I eat or drink it.

Hawkeye on M*A*S*H did that. Funny episode!

Sylvanus wrote:i would mention that i have a book on me at all times, but that wouldn't sound strange to most of you.

*gasp* What a freak!

Oh hell. I was going to quote something from Ayn Rand's <U>Atlas Shrugged</U>. But I'm not sure it is clear enough without reading the previous 934 pages. So go do that, and see this view of happiness. By then, you know exactly what she's talking about, and it's perfectly clear and true. Some concep...

Aaaahhhh...
<I>Grendel</I> is another <B>fantastic</B> comic book!! But unrelated to this conversation.

Wow! Tons of posts to this thread in the past several hours! If anyone's interested, my 2nd post on the 2nd page of the "The Oath of Peace" thread has my theories of Foul. I don't know if copying the same information again is frowned upon for any reason, so I won't do that this time. As fo...

I never even heard of it. Anybody know if he wrote books before his run on the <I>Sandman</I> comic book? Or did they all come after? Just curious.

I always thought that the area you are referring too was destroyed by the war between LF and Kevin, not by the RoD itself. You're right. Atiaran said this: "Then the few who were chosen at Revelstone for the great work took the First Ward to Kurash Plenethor, Stricken Stone, where the gravest ...

The actual knowledge of white gold is probably quite harmless for a people that are incapable of making it so why hide it? I'm not thinking Kevin should have <I>hid</I> the information. I'm thinking that the space in the First Ward that was taken up with information about white gold could have been...