The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93146   Message #1789612
Posted By: leeneia
21-Jul-06 - 11:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: mystery mystery
Subject: RE: BS: mystery mystery
I forgot to mention that when looking up "wanwood" as seen in the Hopkins poem, I came across the wonderful word "wanweird," which is a Scots term meaning an unhappy fate.

Somebody ought to write a ballad and use that word in it.

"Wanwood" itself wasn't in the dictionary.