ENGL208C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Aihal, Mass Games, The The
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A norse cosmology: a wizard of earthsea has a lot to do with norse cosmology and the norse language, norse is the older language behind english, old norse (cid:224) old english (cid:224) modern english + modern german, ged means mind in old norse, flies as quick as thought as a hawk, norse is primarily isolated in iceland so that old norse does not differ substantially from modern icelandic, many of the key names in a wizard of earthsea are drawn from the old norse language our old speech , the world ash, in the roots its called middle earth (has little mountains) alfer (elves) hold up the dome of the sky, there is a rainbow bridge, in the branches of the tree there is an eagle (wisdom) and a squirrel, below middle earth there is the realm of hell, on the way down there is a dragon, the middle earth serpent holds it all together.