OFF: Anglo Saxon attitudes

[Daniel Wikdahl]

jill:
>I know I speak to an expert here and I definitely respect that(!) but
>do we actually know what an Anglo Saxon obscenity was?   After all
>words like "greedy" "proud" and "kin-slayer" may not mean much to us
>today but back then the use or even the suggestion alone might have
>been enough to get you killed on the spot!


Reminds me of something:
The Swedish word "fitta", which now is an obscenity for vagina,
used to mean "little well" (AFAK). A rather beautiful description
of the female sex organ that has become vulgar in modern days.

                        - Daniel



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