Comments on: Many Happy Returns of the Day Or, Study Etymology and Live Long http://blog.oup.com/2006/10/many_happy_retu/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: P Schoeman http://blog.oup.com/2006/10/many_happy_retu/comment-page-1/#comment-118026 P Schoeman Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:29:52 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/10/many_happy_returns_of_the_day_or_study_etymology_and_live_long/#comment-118026 Dear Dr. Liberman, I have just discovered your website during my first attempt to learn more about etymology. Please explain your last paragraph regarding why study etymology and why settle in Hawaii or Minnesota? I'm interested in the study of etymology and I live in one of those states! Thank you. PS Dear Dr. Liberman,
I have just discovered your website during my first attempt to learn more about etymology. Please explain your last paragraph regarding why study etymology and why settle in Hawaii or Minnesota? I’m interested in the study of etymology and I live in one of those states!
Thank you.
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]]> By: Leif Nordholm http://blog.oup.com/2006/10/many_happy_retu/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Leif Nordholm Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:38:58 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/10/many_happy_returns_of_the_day_or_study_etymology_and_live_long/#comment-328 Hello Dr. Liberman, I attended your lectures at UVIC last week and one question that I reserved (after learning that you had this blog) was about the origin of Götterdämmerung. My writing teacher gave this word to my group as part of an obscure vocabulary exercise. I have read that it is the German version of Ragnarök, which our class will discuss in our study of the Edda of Snorri, but I cannot see the verbal connection. How does one get Götterdämmerung from Ragnarök? Hello Dr. Liberman,

I attended your lectures at UVIC last week and one question that I reserved (after learning that you had this blog) was about the origin of Götterdämmerung. My writing teacher gave this word to my group as part of an obscure vocabulary exercise. I have read that it is the German version of Ragnarök, which our class will discuss in our study of the Edda of Snorri, but I cannot see the verbal connection. How does one get Götterdämmerung from Ragnarök?

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