That reminds me of the Old English word for faker, or imitator: an 'evenliker' would have been the modern equivalent. what a beautifully simple and anfaldy word. God knows how that didn't make it into modern English.

Beheld might indeed be misunderstood as a noun on occasion, but I'm fairly sure from an audio point of view that if '' a lode was shot ' in a film then there would be a lot of ambiguity and a few shocked faces following such a revelation ;P

''But Gallitrot you are forsooth no rhinestone-warrior when it comes to English!'' Not sure what you mean by this...

...But hell, if 'lodestar' is there in the dictionary and of recorded provenance (kithely frume), then I'm all for it.

Sikerly, the O.E. lād "way, course, carrying" is, as far as Im aware, the word 'lead' as in leader ? Is the word 'lode' even needed? I reckon leadstar, or leadster ( to differentiate from leader) would afastly(certainly) suffice. Personally I think the word 'a/the beheld' would be a word with a nice nod to the Germanic 'Held' , but more fittingly maintain the idea of a role model or someone admired.

About 'Held', I'm presuming we'd be looking for a modern word along the lines of ' Heleth' or 'Halth' , maybe it clinked too much like the word 'health' and led to Middle English befuddling. I'm sure other words died a death when English went into 300yrs of freefall following the Norman Overthrowing.

I see no problem re-strengthening and re-backing our tongue with closer attention being paid to our Teutonic cousins. Unfortunately, Teutonic is considered somewhat of a dirty word since the whole Nazi lunacy. But scholars and the media are quick to forget, our other teutonic cousins suffered under the hands of the Germans, countries whose economies and cultures were totally innocent of the goings-on of '33 - '45. Yet somehow, their teutonicness gets overlook and supressed by their accidental Germanic heritage. Britain gets a hell of a lot of direct and indirect business via Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark Belgium, Luxembourg... would it be so painful to give them some respect and bring them closer to our linguistic home?

@Aegelfolc,

That would make good onget. For any onefoldly Thetch tongue (Dutch, Swedish) would be like an unlocking key for the other more heavy-going ones (German, Icelandic).

Nederlands, wat voor een heel erg leuke taal. Ik zou 't heel geweldig vinden, als elk kind de taal kan leren. Misschien niet alleen 'kunnen' toch even ' moeten' !

As far as I'm aware, this song has not one none Germanic word in its lyrics... that's fair seldom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smO4VS9134

Pop culture: Now there is an economic market or husbandry-field within which much success could be had in influencing language and wordstock. Pop music is the song of the ally/ almean/ common man and that is really how many of our most simplistic germanic language is elegantly and melodically preserved. The tonguely withholding of gleedream, if you will.