Widely used title of high authority, in English was orginally 'hlafweard', meaning bread-keeper?
On Translating Beowulf of compound words, Tolkien observes that the translator has to Tolkien concludes the section by warning the translator that even the most well-worn kennings had not lost their meaning and connotations. Whereas, he argues, the Old English word "hlaford", meaning 'lord' (which derives from it) was all that was left of the antique "hlafweard" (which originally meant 'bread-keeper', 'loaf-guard') in daily speech, the poetic phrases used in verse retained echoes of another world: Tolkien states that he is going to give an account of Old English metre using modern English, bringing out "the ancestral kinship of the two languages, as
Keeper of the Meaning on wisdom and justice. Keeper of the Meaning Keeper of the Meaning is a stage of adult development which involves the "conservation and preservation of the collective products of mankind". This stage was developed by George Vaillant in 1993 and added to Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, between generativity vs. stagnation and integrity vs. despair. This stage covers the ages of 60 to 75. Vaillant contrasts keeper of the meaning with rigidity. Vaillant stresses that wisdom is a central part of the keeper of the meaning stage. Where generativity focuses on the care of individuals, keeper of the meaning is