Meme.

[muchabstracted]

Gacked from elfsdh2


Rules:

1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to it).
3. Find the 5th sentence (or closest to it).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.


No one will agree to call me Aelgifu except Gerd the miller's son, who cannot pronounce the name and says Ugly-foo.

Comments

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Aelgifu!

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Hmm. My 23rd post doesn't have a 5th sentence; it's a link to a Doonesbury cartoon so old that John Kerry is drawn as himself.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Hmmm indeed. What's the fifth sentence in the cartoon?

[obopolsk.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome sentence. I'd call you Aelgifu if you wanted. But I'm also the person who wants to name her child, if she ever has one, Aethelthryth. :)

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

*grins* I wish I could claim credit. (And I sort of did, I suppose,) but it was from a post where I was quoting Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman.

Though as far as nicknames go, that's one I wouldn't mind having.

further musings

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Aethelthryth is a great name. And I would totally be behind that, except that anyone named Aethelthryth in this benighted day and age would be nicknamed Ethel. She'd have to practice her fisticuffs to keep it from happening. (The entire point of that last sentence, in case you wondered, was so I could use the word 'fisticuffs'.)

Re: further musings

[obopolsk.livejournal.com]

"Fisticuffs" is an excellent word. But I do have to come up with a nickname other than Ethel--that would be awful!

Re: further musings

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always the nickname "Elf", which follows nicely from Aelfgifu. Technically, that might not be any better, but I think it's more fun.

Re: further musings

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

What, fisticuffs?

Re: further musings

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

(Yes, I am taking advantage of my unlimited license to spam your journal. Deal.)

Re: further musings

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

*snorts* Yes, I am always terrribly upset to hear from you in any form.

Really, any form of the word "spam" that does not involve non-kosher food products or -- okay, so most forms of the word "spam" are irritating. But the personal and Monty Python versions of spam are always welcome in my LJ.

Re: further musings

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Fisticuffs.

*bites my thumb at you*

Re: further musings

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Do you bite your thumb at me?

Re: further musings

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Honestly, can't you read?

Re: further musings

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Shall we play at questions?

Re: further musings

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Are you asking me how high we can up my comment count?

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[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Don't you want to break LJ comment records?

Re: further musings

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Of course she does!

Re: further musings

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Statement. One-love.

Re: further musings

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I was trying to figure out the appropriate response.

Re: further musings

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Do you think that our puny efforts will succeed where the Snaps Cup meme has failed?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Aren't we so much more interesting than those people who do Snaps Cup memes?

Re: further musings

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

What does that have to do with the amount of spam they generate relative to us?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

A whole group of us who were in the same medieval English history class in college swore a not-so-solemn oath to name our firstborn daughters Aelfgifu.

I only figured out years later that our professor had mispronounced the name, and instead of ELF-gih-foo, it should have been elf-YEE-foo.

[obopolsk.livejournal.com]

*snort* IMO, Elf-yee-foo is even better. We should all pity my unborn children, I think.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

At least Aethelthryth is pronounced more or less phonetically.

If you could be really cruel to the poor kids, you could spell it Æþelþryð...

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Teacher of obopolsk's unborn daughter: "Ebelbride? Is there an Ebelbride present?"

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Question for you -- the full book quote in the original journal entry says that she's "Saint Aelgifu". I've been trying to find evidence of this saintedness and failing -- do you know if she was in fact a saint?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I've never heard that she was from any reliable source.

I can, however, say that plenty of dead kings, queens and local clergy got informally called saints in the areas around which they were famous, even if the process of canonization hadn't gotten anywhere.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. I guess there's always Jesus.

[dreams-of-wings.livejournal.com]

*laugh*
I read that sentence and went "Oh! I know what book that is from! I have not read that in AGES."

What fun. :)

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

*grins* The benefit of discovering Catherine Called Birdy later on in life -- it gets posted on LJ. Twice, apparently.

HA

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

That's still my favorite of all the Cushmans.

Re: HA

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

I suspected it was her best, just based on the back covers. Which, I know, not a reliable method for determining book quality.