A Linguistic Family Tree of North-West European Fairies January 4, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval, Modern
Word history is particularly fraught where supernatural creatures are involved. Uncanny things multiply with such disconcerting speed (often varying from valley to valley) that the normal philological approaches can easily get stuck in the mud. A particularly painful example of this is what might be called the bugge family. Bugge meant demon or spirit in Middle English: […]
