Can You Get All 15?

Started by JBS, October 04, 2021, 08:06:20 PM

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Quote from: JBS on October 05, 2021, 06:31:23 PM
I suspect Kerle is a cognate of the English churl, most wildly known in its adjectival form churlish. Its Old English form was ceorl.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ceorl
It probably is. The original Germanic/Frankish/Anglish meaning was just "man, husband".
The "housecarls" of Harold are from the same root as is Charlemagnes German name "Karl" (which became the word for king in several slavic languages, k(o)rol, cf. Szymanowski's Krol Roger). At some stage it took a somewhat pejorative meaning (which is mild and usually humorous in today's German) for a rough, uncouth fellow.
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

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Quote from: JBS on October 05, 2021, 06:33:34 PM
The writing on the boat says Lowestoft.
Which should make the opera involved rather obvious.
O.k., so that definitely indicates Peter Grimes then.  :)

Looking at that figure by/at/outside a window, it looks like it might be someone playing an instrument; it makes me think of The Barber of Seville (as in serenading Rosina).

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