Caroline Brady (1905–1980) was an American philologist whose scholarship focused on Old English and Old Norse. Her works included the 1943 book The Legends of Ermanaric, based on her doctoral dissertation, and three influential papers on the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. She was born an American citizen in Tientsin, China, and studied in the University of California system, receiving her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1935. The Legends of Ermanaric discussed two competing traditions about the Gothic king Ermanaric, who ruled in the fourth century AD. Ostrogothic lore viewed him as a good king, whereas a second tradition, promulgated by those subjugated by him, saw him as evil. Brady was known as an investigator of the intractable problems of Germanic myth, and the convoluted nature of the related scholarship. In 1952–53 she was the Marion Talbot Fellow of the American Association of University Women.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1895:

Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

1919:

The first fraternity exclusively for collegiate band members, Kappa Kappa Psi, was founded on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Kappa_Psi

1999:

The Labour Party defeated the governing National Party in the New Zealand general election, with Labour's Helen Clark becoming the country's first female prime minister to have won office at an election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Clark

2009:

A bomb exploded under, and derailed, a Russian high-speed train travelling between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, killing 28 passengers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nevsky_Express_bombing

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

potluck: 1. (dated) A meal, especially one offered to a guest, consisting of whatever food is available. 2. (by extension) Whatever is available in a particular situation. 3. (originally Canada, US) A shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought (sometimes without prior arrangement); a potlatch; also, a dish of food brought to such a meal. 4. (obsolete) The last draft or portion of an alcoholic beverage in a pot or other drinking vessel. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/potluck

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