Comments on: The King of Portugal and the ettins http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/05/the-king-of-portugal-and-the-ettins/ anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the sweating hun Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:32:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Trevor ap Simon http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/05/the-king-of-portugal-and-the-ettins/#comment-88859 Trevor ap Simon Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:42:16 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/05/the-king-of-portugal-and-the-ettins/#comment-88859 So there's no difference between a giant and an ettin? I kind of thought an ettin might be a stupid giant or something. (Are you paying for the OED? I think I'm about to get academicness, so I'll be able to Ctrl-V with the best of them) So there’s no difference between a giant and an ettin? I kind of thought an ettin might be a stupid giant or something.

(Are you paying for the OED? I think I’m about to get academicness, so I’ll be able to Ctrl-V with the best of them)

]]> By: MM http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/05/the-king-of-portugal-and-the-ettins/#comment-88367 MM Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:59:40 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/05/the-king-of-portugal-and-the-ettins/#comment-88367 The OED supports him. [OE. eoten, eten = ON. iœtunn (Sw. jätte, Da. jette):—OTeut. *ituno-z.] A giant. c1205 Lay. 1801 Heo funden i þon londe twenti eotandes [c1275 eatantes] stronge. Ibid. 17275 Hit hatte þere Eotinde King. c1250 Gen. & Ex. 545 Of hem woren ðe Šetenes borne, MiŠti men, and fiŠti. a1300 E.E. Psalter xviii. 6 [xix. 5] He gladed als yhoten to renne his wai. c1325 Leg. Rood (1871) 118 Quen dauid faŠt againe þat etin has he noŠt his staf for-Šetin. c1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 723 He werrez+Boþe wyth bullez & berez, & borez oþer-quyle, & etaynez. c1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 111 No man is an etene to fede him þus bodili of Crist. c1440 MS. Lincoln A. 1. 17. f. 128 (Halliw.) Fy, he said, thou foule! thou etayne! Alle my knyghtes thou garte be slayne. 1528 Lyndesay Dream Ep. to King 45 Off the reid Etin [v.r. Eitin] and the gyir carlyng. 1549 Compl. Scot. 63 The taiyl of the reyde eythyn vitht the thre heydis. 1611 Beaum. & Fl. Knt. Burning Pestle i. ii, They say the King of Portugal cannot sit at his meate but the Giants and the Ettins will come and snatch it from him. The OED supports him.

[OE. eoten, eten = ON. iœtunn (Sw. jätte, Da. jette):—OTeut. *ituno-z.]
A giant.
c1205 Lay. 1801 Heo funden i þon londe twenti eotandes [c1275 eatantes] stronge. Ibid. 17275 Hit hatte þere Eotinde King. c1250 Gen. & Ex. 545 Of hem woren ðe Šetenes borne, MiŠti men, and fiŠti. a1300 E.E. Psalter xviii. 6 [xix. 5] He gladed als yhoten to renne his wai. c1325 Leg. Rood (1871) 118 Quen dauid faŠt againe þat etin has he noŠt his staf for-Šetin. c1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 723 He werrez+Boþe wyth bullez & berez, & borez oþer-quyle, & etaynez. c1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 111 No man is an etene to fede him þus bodili of Crist. c1440 MS. Lincoln A. 1. 17. f. 128 (Halliw.) Fy, he said, thou foule! thou etayne! Alle my knyghtes thou garte be slayne. 1528 Lyndesay Dream Ep. to King 45 Off the reid Etin [v.r. Eitin] and the gyir carlyng. 1549 Compl. Scot. 63 The taiyl of the reyde eythyn vitht the thre heydis. 1611 Beaum. & Fl. Knt. Burning Pestle i. ii, They say the King of Portugal cannot sit at his meate but the Giants and the Ettins will come and snatch it from him.

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