[Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 6, Issue 26

[Nanna Rognvaldardottir]

>>>
>>GIMLI, Manitoba?  As a Tolkien fan, I find that town name hilarious!
>>
>
>Remember, he stole most of the dwarven names from the Elder Edda. That
name,
>like Thorin and Gandalf, LONG predates Tolkien. In fact, it probably
>predates OUR period!
>
>Avraham
>
>Right.  And out of all the names they could have chosen... so I'm just
>been a Tolkien geek for three decades, okay?

>Selene


Gimli, or Gimle, is a place name in Norse mythology. On Gimle was built the
most beautiful house in the world, roofed with gold and brighter than the
sun. Gimle would stand when both heaven and earth had perished, and there
all good and just men would live forever after.

So it is no wonder that the Icelanders who emigrated to Manitoba in the late
19th century chose this name for their main town in the new world; to them
the name more or less meant "paradise".

Nanna