Difference between revisions of "Wielderfight"
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* '''to yield or fight''' → typical language of courtly romances, such as those involving Sir [[Tristram]] | * '''to yield or fight''' → typical language of courtly romances, such as those involving Sir [[Tristram]] | ||
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| + | * '''Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''Ulysses'', line 70:''' "To strive, to seek, to '''find''', and not to '''yield'''." | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%28poem%29 Wikipedia] | ||
* '''wielder''' | * '''wielder''' | ||
Revision as of 01:45, 7 June 2008
- wieder: (German) again
- wiederfechten: (German – unusual) to fight again
- to yield or fight → typical language of courtly romances, such as those involving Sir Tristram
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses, line 70: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
- wielder
- wild fight
- Widder: (German) ram → Aries?
