HARRY CLUES ABOUT THE BOOKS: Something else is curious

amanitamuscaria1 saraandra at saraandra.plus.com
Tue Jan 13 21:32:41 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 88610

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spang_b" <spang_b at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> spangb
> >   The name Dedalus comes from a Greek architect who built the 
> > Minoan 
> > labyrinth in which resided the famous Minotaur. It also means 
> > intricate in English. 
> snip 

> Geoff:
snip
> Dedalus/Daedalus was also the father of Icarus, 
> who made artificial wings and flew too near the sun. 
>
snip

AmanitaMuscaria:
Just to clarify Geoff's post, Daedalus made the wings, his son used 
them and flew too near the sun and died.
But my OED has the origin of Daedalus as being 'cunningly wrought', 
from the Latin. And, although Diggle isn't in, dighel is Old English 
for dark, secret, obscure. Should we be keeping a careful eye on DD?
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria





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