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Athene
 14 Aug 2010, 11:33 #96458 Reply To Post
I love "cat-snack"! Trying to think of some ice ones now ...

Meanwhile, going off at a bit of a tangent ... my brother has just sent me a list of howlers from this year's GCSE papers, including:

Question: Briefly explain what hard water is?
Answer: Ice.

(I also liked
Question: Where was the American Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: At the bottom.)


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Athene
 14 Aug 2010, 11:36 #96460 Reply To Post
I'm sure I can remember an actual Anglo-Saxon kenning for stars, but I can't think where I've read it: heaven-corn. I like the image of the stars being scattered across the night sky like someone sowing corn.

A belated welcome back, Carol/SaxonAnnie! This thread should be just up your street.

This post was last edited by Athene, 14 Aug 2010, 11:38


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MLT
 14 Aug 2010, 12:09 #96468 Reply To Post
Quote: perrybond, Saturday, 14 Aug 2010 09:43
Hi
As I've already mentioned, I think this is a great thread, and as a 'mere dabbler' (a sulcus definition) it's been inspirational.

I'd like to be more altruistic, but it has immediately filled a need in my own writing. I need to emphasise the difference between to cultures by their speech and although their different accents are commented upon, it is hard to put those inflections into the speech. To add a kenning or two on one side, for the other side to stumble upon would illustrate the difference nicely.
Now in their ice world 'ice' is everywhere and I think it reasonable for them to have different words for types of ice. I'm looking for a kenning for an open sea of ice, an ice plain.
The best I've come up with is glass-water
Any suggestions would be appreciated. The book is for 11-14 year olds.


sliding waves
slippery water
blue-hard ripples

perrybond
 14 Aug 2010, 12:12 #96473 Reply To Post
Thanks Anne, I've heard about the Inuit words for snow, although in my book all the sea is ice, so there is no rain cycle, so there is no snow!
The problem with glass-water is that there is very little glass. Their technology has not made it yet, ut they find shards on the islands (This is the only clue that you are on the earth in the future, as it you go forwards a few million years all the plastic, everything from now would have decomposed except glass
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sulcus
 14 Aug 2010, 12:40 #96482 Reply To Post
Liquid valley (or dale) for the open sea
or just blue-melt

sky-mirror only you're back at the glass issue

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 14 Aug 2010, 12:59 #96490 Reply To Post
Quote: perrybond, Saturday, 14 Aug 2010 12:12
Thanks Anne, I've heard about the Inuit words for snow, although in my book all the sea is ice, so there is no rain cycle, so there is no snow!
The problem with glass-water is that there is very little glass. Their technology has not made it yet, ut they find shards on the islands (This is the only clue that you are on the earth in the future, as it you go forwards a few million years all the plastic, everything from now would have decomposed except glass


It sounds as though you could use glass, then, even if it is a rarity. However, I don't think pottery would have deteriorated. That's why it is so valuable for archaeologists, for dating purposes.
Ann
Zak Spundy
 14 Aug 2010, 13:44 #96502 Reply To Post
water stone
rain stone
snow stone
lines from the word lab
Athene
 14 Aug 2010, 17:36 #96516 Reply To Post
wave fetters
sea chains


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perrybond
 14 Aug 2010, 18:24 #96518 Reply To Post
Thanks, you've given me plenty to think about.
I was looking for something poetic and pretty. nothing with waves will work as they wouldn't know what they are. It's fun having a different mind set. Whereas we think of ice as frozen water, they think of water as melted ice, ice being the norm.
I love sky-mirror. There is no problem with glass as to mirror something is to reflect or copy it; in fact mirrors play a major role in the story. (They use beaten copper polished with ground pumice)
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perrybond
 14 Aug 2010, 18:30 #96520 Reply To Post
Anne, good point about the pottery. Soft clay and earthenware would have deteriorated, but properly fired pottery is made hard by the heating of the silica enough to make it fuse, this would survive (this is actually virtually the same as glass)
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