Talk:Coils of Light/@comment-26261438-20150330212104

I was bored so I decided to try and figure out the definitions for some of those crazy old english words. But some of the definitions don't quite make sense when you try to fit them into the lyrics. Could be because these are song lyrics but whatever, I'm just gonna dump this stuff here for whoever wants to have some fun with this stuff.

Riven: 'something that has been torn or split apart violently (either literally and figuratively)' probably referring to kith and kin which comes right after that.

Kith and kin: interestingly enough, they used to be used together like this to refer to one's friends and relatives. But before that it referred to one's country and relatives. Kith would mean either one's country or friends and kin would mean relatives, respectively.

Begyved: I don't know why they have the 'be' in front of 'gyved' but gyve means 'to shackle or fetter'.

Immane: 'monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce'.

Anon: 'soon, presently'.

Eyne: plural for eye.

Accoyed: 'past tense of accoy. 'To soothe; to calm; to assuage; to subdue.'

Dogma: 'an official or set of principles laid down by an authority as undeniably true'. (They have to put the game name in there somewhere.)

Bearded: can mean 'to boldly confront or challenge (someone formidable).' (Or maybe he just grew a beard or something.)

Whither: 'to what place'

tl;dr: Old English is fucking confusing