Arni:
> I got the Primary Referent.
Me no undirstend that!!!
Egil Skallagrimson's Saga. Pretty bloody obvious. +Too+ obvious, I suppose.
I must be losing my touch.
Nagh?
:-(
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> But to go behind this, where did the the term "Egilsgulli?" come from?
> Surely from Egil the Icelandic mental poet hardman?
Indeed!
> Sodding kenning, in'it?
No! No! Fairly straight forward, this one, Robin. No fucking KENNING here.
(Sorry). It's simply beer from the brewery we know since time immemorial as
Ölgerð Egils Skallagrímssonar [The Brewery of Egill Skallagrímsson]. So,
yes, you're on the spot here, the name does come from that eye-plucking, own
vomit-eating viking rogue.
{
Could you expand on that, Arni? Went right past me, but it sounds
fascinting.
[sp] -- my spell-checker seems to have currenty goen severly West.
}
Who, incidentally, lived quite near to where I
was brough up to become whatever I've become.
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Look, Arni, I may be being more than usually bumb-bunny here, and I should
take my own advice which is when you dig yourself into yourself a hole,
apologise and climb out, but ...
Right, we agree that the is ref to Egil.
So he brewed beer.
So did Elinor Rumming.
Egil's *Gold*.
I'd +still+ rate that as a kenning.
Nagh?
Robin
(May your bones deliquiesque [spelling] lapped by the lava of Snaefels
Junkul)
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