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martensas / edda

Critical edition and heavily annotated translation of Eddic poems + a few related works
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Vsp. St. 2: request notes about "inwithies" and "Metwood" #37

Open jgnewman opened 1 year ago

jgnewman commented 1 year ago

I understand what you're doing with both of these words, but I suspect a more general audience won't understand how to interpret them. I love your explanation of why you chose íviðjur over íviði, but it might be nice to define these terms as well.

martensas commented 1 year ago

Turning this into general discussion of how the Index can be referenced. One idea I have is to divide it into a few parts, Cultural (C), Mythological Proper Noun (M) and Heroic/Historical Proper Noun (H). Then indicate that a term is available in one part of the index by a superscript (or subscript?) initial. Example: "Nine Inwithiesᴹ", or "A harrowꟲ he built for me.

Thoughts?

jgnewman commented 1 year ago

I'm wondering what the value would be in separating the index into categories like this. I see that it creates a way to tell the reader to go look in the index via a sub/superscript but I'm curious if you see additional value in it.