Naming
After its final dissociation from the national in 1985, the fraternity chose the name Chi Heorot, derived from the medieval poem Beowulf. Heorot is the great hall where warriors converge to tell their stories, described by the anonymous author in the following excerpt:
- Then, as I have heard, the work of constructing a building
- Was proclaimed to many a tribe throughout this middle earth.
- In time – quickly, as such things happen among men –
- It was all ready, the biggest of halls.
- He whose word was law
- Far and wide gave it the name ‘Heorot’.
- The men did not dally; they strode inland in a group
- Until they were able to discern the timbered hall,
- Splendid and ornamented with gold.
- The building in which that powerful man held court
- Was the foremost of halls under heaven;
- Its radiance shone over many lands..
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Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)