#whale road

[allthingslinguistic]

Hey, literature folks. Have y'all noticed that people are using kennings again? I mean, sea pancake, danger noodle, sea roomba. 

How's that different from describing the sea as the whale-road or gannet's bath? 

THIS IS SO FUCKING AWESOME. I love kennings.

- Kylo Bean on twitter

[whatsitnot]

Whale Road

(Spoilers for TOAFN "I've been working on the whale-road" below the cut)

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Why did you-

k-ill off Bryce?! Okay, to be fair, it was impactful, and it just made me love him more, but whyyyyyyyy yyyyyyy? I hope we get to hear more from his soldiers. He will be missed, and remembered.

Also Ace character! So well done, IMO. 

[brokenrosesdontbloom]

Made with Adobe Illustrator, and riffing on a concept from AC Valhalla, during the Vinland arc.

[guylogicgaming]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGw0E9YGjjA)

[okapiandpaste]

so me and my mom were talking about old english and apparently a word for the ocean is literally “whale road”. why isn’t this still a thing.

[ho-omana-o]

injusticeworth replied to your post: If you are awake, reblog or reply to this with a...

Mmm, how abouuuut… hron-rad if Old English counts. ‘Eyes at the bottom of the sea’ if not.

Um. 'Whale-road"? Yeah...doing this!

Without research. Without research. Except the translation. Oh well. Ah well. A lot of sighs at this hour.

There's this post. Hmmkay. The whale (road) is too grand to actually write about right away. Perhaps a second post. (But I wanted to do this in case I can get it in before you go to sleep. And then other words. And then maybe this again!)

There's this post. A pretty standard Tumblr post. The Prince of Egypt? They're walking through the Red Sea (even though, I've read, it was actually a reed sea that Moses sloshed through). And next to them is a huge shape. It's not a whale. According (correctly) to Tumblr. The tail goes the wrong way. It's a megalodon shark. The mind takes the image and runs, though.

A whale road cannot be something small, trifling. It's not a plastic tunnel through Sea World. A whale road cannot even be a path one might walk if one was, say, Aqua Man. (And I know, I know, I am staying very un-grand. Perhaps part II…with some research? will be grander.) A whale road is made of memories. Like Ishmael walking through bones. A road made out of whale. Not so crass. A road made out of memories and thoughts as large and incomprehensible as a whale.

Yes. Okay. Right right. That is the road I want to walk down. Someday.

[fifth-dimensional]

We were studying for our History of English test and we had trouble remembering that "whale road" is an example of a kenning. So I made this.

((A kenning is a type of metaphor used in Old English poetry, usually combining two words to express a concept. For example, "whale road" was the poetic term for the sea.))

[jugglingjujube]

It's the first day of school and I already have to write a paragraph on the history of the English Language for a teacher who loves comic sans.