Fw: NPPF (Comentary) Stillicide

[cfalbert]

> Isn't "kulle" a common scandinavian root for "hill" or "mound"?
>
> love,
> cfa
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Arne Herløv Petersen" <herlahp at inet.uni2.dk>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:01 PM
> Subject: Re: NPPF (Comentary) Stillicide
>
>
> > s~Z wrote:
> > >
> > > "Hyde comes from the Anglo-Saxon HYD, which is Danish HIDE, "a haven."
> And
> > > Jekyll comes from the Danish name JOKULLE, which means "an
> cle."    --V.
> > > Nabokov (from lecture on Dr. Jekyll/Hyde)
> >
> >
> > I wonder what kind of Danish Nabokov spoke. As a native Dane I am
> > mystified. There is no Danish word HIDE, meaning "a haven".
> > HID means hither. Or would it be better to choose English HIDE (as:
> > skin), which is HUD in Danish?
> > JOKULL (not Jokulle) is not Danish, but Icelandic, and does not mean
> > "icicle" but "glacier".
> >
> > Arne Herlov Petersen
> >
>