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Ársrit Kvenréttindafélags Íslands | 29
an expression of pain
in a woman’s mouth hérna tungumál refers to language hérna as in a tongue— a mobile muscular organ
implicated in speech production hérna mastication hérna swallowing hérna taste hérna and pleasure hérna as in a
tongue on a nipple on a breast in a woman’s mouth hérna used hérna unthinking and with frequency
hérna with ease or gush hérna where to gush is að fossa hérna and fossa as a depression or hollow is
implicated in speech production hérna is also related to foss meaning waterfall hérna as in áfall—
trauma— when the mouth or foss í losti fjall hérna mountain hérna to land úff landed with an úff
hérna an interjection expressing impact of difficult news as in may prefix negation onto a word hérna
similar to ó as in breast in a mouth hérna where the breast was aches when breasts are lost— as in
hérna she entered a state of shock when she could not find her nipple in a woman’s mouth hérna
where geirvarta means nipple hérna nipple reconstruction may transplant part of the vulva— as
in völva hérna a sybil or a seer— onto the breast hérna breast shaped like varða hérna landvarða
as in cairn while varta means wart hérna while ljót means ugly hérna ljós is light hérna ljóð is
poem hérna while land is land hérna while landvarta designates a tourist­built cairn having no
function as a traditional wayfinder þegar kona gengur á fjall hérna án leiðar hérna án varða en
með vörtur þá er leiðin ljót hérna er án ljóða hérna þegar það sem er skrifað á landið var ekki
tungumál hérna eins og ill omen eins og nipple lost— as in hérna she entered í losti when told
she had breast cancer hérna á— river— ás— an axis, a ridge, an Ace, a Norse god— en á— a
preposition of movement— á as in ást or áfall or dáin
where dáin means dead hérna where –in may be
a definitive feminine end
excerpt from
Áfall / Trauma
Angela Rawlings
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