Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Bengt Hallberg RIIP: Bend and a Mountain House

The Deaths in 2013 site just added to its list under July 2nd : 
  • Bengt Hallberg, 80, Swedish jazz pianist. (death announced on this date)
Hallberg's first name is close enough to the word "bent" to consider his death as "timely"-- influenced by his inner twin and/or the inner twin world.  Note this excerpt from my previous post entitled,
 So we now have a "Bent" to add to the "Bow/Circle/Circus/Loop/Bend" pattern-cluster that's cropped up in the last couple of weeks. 
Note the following etymology of the name Beng thttp://www.behindthename.com/name/benedict:
Swedish form of BENEDICT.  From the Late Latin name Benedictus which meant "blessed". Saint Benedict was an Italian monk who founded the Benedictines in the 6th century. After his time the name was common among Christians, being used by 16 popes. In England it did not come into use until the 12th century, at which point it became very popular. This name was also borne by the American defector Benedict Arnold (1741-1801).
 VARIANT: BennettDIMINUTIVES: BenBennieBennyOTHER LANGUAGES: BenedictusBen (Dutch)Pentti (Finnish)Benoit (French)Bieito (Galician)Benedikt (German)Peni (Hawaiian)BenedekBence (Hungarian),BenedettoBenitoBettino (Italian)Benedictus (Late Roman)Bendiks (Latvian)Benedykt (Polish)BeneditoBento (Portuguese)Benedikt (Russian),Benito (Spanish)Benesh (Yiddish)
Even though the "g" is present and pronounced in the name Bengt, in many diminutives the "g" and hard "c" was dropped altogether.  It's also interesting to note that my partners name is Bennett.

Note in the above, the mention of Benedict Arnold, now note the following from his wiki page:
Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 [O.S. January 3, 1740][1][2] – June 14, 1801) 
Benedict's birthday of January 14th is one day off from January 15th, the birthday of both  my son and partner, and June 14 his date of death, is one day off from my birthday of June 13.  This falls under the "Off By One" Pattern-Cluster.
 
So then, at least phonetically, my partner's surname is related to "bend/bent".  Butt it really gets audd when you note the etymology of the verb bend as per the third excerpt below where the Lithuanian bendras means "partner"... the inner twin world works in mysterious ways, bending things around in the process of making their perfect circle... the means by which they reveal themselves and demonstrate their power.
bend (n.2) Look up bend at Dictionary.com"broad diagonal band in a coat-of-arms, etc.," c.1400, from earlier sense of "thin, flat strap for wrapping round," from Old English bend "fetter, shackle, chain," from PIE *bhendh- (see bend (v.)).
bend (n.1) Look up bend at Dictionary.com"a bending or curving," 1590s; "thing of bent shape," c.1600, from bend (v.). Earlier "act of drawing a bow" (mid-15c.). The bends "decompression pain" first attested 1894.
bend (v.) Look up bend at Dictionary.comOld English bendan "to bend a bow; confine with a string, fetter," causative of bindan "to bind," from Proto-Germanic base *band- "string, band" (cf. Old Norsebenda "to join, strain, strive, bend"), from PIE root *bhendh- "to bind" (cf. Gothic bindan, Old High German bintan, Sanskrit badhnati "binds," Lithuanianbendras "partner;" Old Persian bandaka- "subject").
Modern sense (early 14c.) is via notion of bending a bow to string it. Cognate with bandbind, and bond. Related: Bendedbentbending.
bender (n.) Look up bender at Dictionary.comlate 15c., "instrument for bending," agent noun from bend (v.). Slang meaning "drinking bout" is American English, attested from 1846, perhaps from the Scottish sense of "a hard drinker" (1728).
bended Look up bended at Dictionary.comoriginal past participle of bend (v.), retained after 14c. in certain formal or poetic formulations, especially on bended knee.
The last etymology above re bended, mentions "bended knee"... this definitely falls under the "Kneel/Neil/Neal" pattern-cluster.  So the question then remaining to be asked, is what does the inner twin world want us to fall on bended knee to?!

The answer... at least in part, is found in Bengt Hallberg's surname, note the etymology :

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