On Sep 4, 7:08 am, Vinny Burgoo <
hlu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> In alt.usage.english, Jerry Friedman wrote:
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> >On Aug 31, 11:32 am, Jerry Friedman <
je...@totally-official.com>
> >> This is a Toughie (worth a Touabaire).
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> >> This place-name is recorded in many forms:
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> >> One of them appears periodically in France, closer than we normally
> >> think.
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> >> One of them is also the name of a person who is recorded as having
> >> progressed from salt to nickel.
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> >> A jazzier namesake of the former will lead you to Google.
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> >> Irish monks could seek solitude on one, but Zo 's dad is recorded as
> >> having sought the opposite on multiples of these.
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> >> A Palestinian scholar recorded the flight of the earls to this place.
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> >> There is even a namesake in Yemen.
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> >> List all these variant spellings including the name by which the place
> >> is best known (the penultimate clue above). Nary a point of departure
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> >> a good place to begin from a study of natural history (Lewis).
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> >The man who first recorded the name was archly condemned by Ol'
> >Crosseyes.
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> Strabo! So this has something to do with Pytheas and Thule. There is a
> Thule in Yemen. 'Periodically' might indicate Thulium, but I can't see a
> French connection, unless it's Tulle, which was named after Tutela, a
> manifestation of Juno. Dunno Tutela's etymology. TheTethysslug alludes
> to Seneca's Medea. Edward Said is the only Palestinian scholar I can
> think of. My copy of Orientalism has gone west
Shalam ching! (=BrE Boom boom!)
> and there are only
> snippets at GooBoo, but somehow I doubt that Said was very interested in
> Hugh O'Neill and chums. I can't Google up an Ottoman scholar from
> around there. The jazzy namesake: Thelonious Monk or Twyla Tharp?
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> That'll have to do for now.
That'll be worth a Katahdin.
Here's James's awe-inspiring answer:
Thule: Slug from Seneca's Medea
"Tethys shall disclose new worlds and Thule not be the limit of the
lands."
"One of them appears periodically in France, closer than we normally
think."
Proxima Thulé, a journal edited by Françoix-Xavier Dillmann (fx)
"One of them is also the name of a person who is recorded as having
progressed from salt to nickel."
Chris Thile recorded a track called Salt Creek before he joined Nickel
Creek, also recorded Not All Who Wander Are Lost
"A jazzier namesake of the former will lead you to Google."
Chris Tyle, Tyle is a programming language. Wiki redirects frrom Tyle
to
the article for Google
"Monks could seek solitude on one, but Zoë's dad is recorded as having
sought the opposite on multiples of these."
Tile. John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, who recorded Out on the Tiles
"A Palestinian scholar recorded the flight of the earls to this
place."
Procopius of Caesarea tells of the return to Scandinavia (Thule) of
the
Eruli (probably cognate with "earls").
"There is even a namesake in Yemen."
Thila
"List all these variant spellings including the name by which the
place
is best known (the penultimate clue above). Nary a point of departure
is
a good place to begin from a study of natural history (Lewis)."
In his Natural History, Pliny says that the crossing to Thule begins
at
Nerigos, identified as the northern promontory of Lewis, designated
Nary
or Nery on old maps.
Pytheas of Massilia, who wrote about his voyage to Thule, was called
an
"archfalsifier" by Strabo (squinter).
Virgil called it Ultima Thule
--
Jerry Friedman, T. O. Sheepsender