At the suggestion of Sharon Bergman, I e-mailed Philip Pullman and asked
him of the meaning for the name, Aesahaettr, given the knife.
Here is his response:
"Hello. The word is Aesahaettr (the vowels should be joined in a ligature,
but I can't find the right symbol on my keyboard. I invented the word by
looking in the glossary at the back of my edition of the old Norse Edda,
which of course I had to do 'backwards', because it was Norse-English and
not English-Norse, for words meaning (roughly) god and killer.
I hope that's a help!
Philip Pullman"
[His response was much more prompt than my posting of it was!]
Shelley McCoy
Library Media Specialist
Farragut Middle School
200 West End Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37922
phone 865-671-7016
fax 865-671-7048
email: mccoys@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us
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