helle

I can see you rider, yea, helle loo, a thousand miles away

Ma Rainey Lyrics 2009

Das helle und das dunkle Garn sollten jeweils auf zwei Knäuel gleicher Größe aufgeteilt werden, weil dies den Aufzug stark vereinfacht.

Archive 2009-07-01 a stitch in time 2009

My guess is that when priests first preached Christianity to the English they needed an Old English word to translate "gehenna" or "hades", asked the interpreter what his people called the bad place you go to after you die, and were told it was called "helle", after which the word became the standard term.

Old English gods and myths: Hell Carla 2009

Since “helle hund” was used in relation to Cerberus, “hell” was presumably considered to be roughly equivalent to Hades and was not confined to the Christian concept of hell.

Archive 2009-06-01 Carla 2009

The modern English word “hell”, meaning the dwelling-place of the dead, the underworld and/or a place of punishment after death, derives directly from its Old English counterpart “helle”.

Archive 2009-06-01 Carla 2009

In the Old English poem Beowulf, the monster Grendel is described as “feond on helle”, “an enemy from hell”.

Old English gods and myths: Hell Carla 2009

Since “helle hund” was used in relation to Cerberus, “hell” was presumably considered to be roughly equivalent to Hades and was not confined to the Christian concept of hell.

Old English gods and myths: Hell Carla 2009

The modern English word “hell”, meaning the dwelling-place of the dead, the underworld and/or a place of punishment after death, derives directly from its Old English counterpart “helle”.

Old English gods and myths: Hell Carla 2009

In the Old English poem Beowulf, the monster Grendel is described as “feond on helle”, “an enemy from hell”.

Archive 2009-06-01 Carla 2009

Nemlich die gelbe Farben haben ihren Urspring aus der rothen elementarischen Feuerfarbe, und sind anders nichts, als eine Verdünung und Verminderung der rothen Farbetheile, mithin eine ins helle sich verlierende Schattierung vom rothen.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006