Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Nu he stant on hulle ond Avene bihaldeth,
 Hu ligeth i than stræme stelene fisces
 Mid sweorde bi-georde. Heore sund is awemmed;
 Heore scalen wleoteth swulc gold-fage sceldes,
 Ther fleoteth heore spiten swulc hit spæen weoren."

-- From Brut, by Laȝamon[*], circa 1200CE, by way of brisingamen (pointed out to me by thette), who also provided this translation:

"Now he stands on a hill and looks into the Avon,
 seeing how steel fishes lie in that stream, girt with sword.
 Their swimming is spoiled; their scales gleam like gold-plated shields,
 their fish-spines float there as if they were spears."

[*] If the third letter of the author's name doesn't show up in your browser, it should look sortakinda like "La3amon", but with "a lowercase '3'", if you can picture that. To spell it without using a yogh, try "Laghamon" -- that's what I used to look up the date of the piece.

Hmm ...

Of course, there's the flavour factor to consider ... versus the observation that tahini+jam makes for a kinda messy sandwich (the tahini keeps trying to escape out the sides). Didn't realise there was that much iron in either one.

Kinda hatin' the irony: rescheduled an appointment because I didn't feel well enough to go to the doctor. Feh.

Having a very bad day body-wise. The back and knee pain and difficulty dealing with stairs are obviously the fibromyalgia; I'm not sure whether the painfully hyperacute hearing is from that as well or is pre-migraine aura (my peripheral vision seems strange as well). No constant skullcrushing or eyestabbing pain, just the intermittent really-does-feel-like-my-head-is-being-crushed pain when a vehicle goes by that has a lot of low frequencies in its engine-noise or that has more rumble than whoosh in its tire-noise, even without the addition of stupidthumpy bass-boosted sound systems. Gonna put pillows over my ears and close my eyes. Falling behind on my LJ friendspage again.