英语词汇rasmussen-s laugh的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Rasmussen’s laugh. In Icelandic legend the story is told of a clergyman named Paul Rasmussen, whose son was kidnapped by English raiders. Acting impulsively, Rasmussen picked up three shells from the beach, each representing an English ship, and made black magic with them. When the shells sank in the water, so did the real ships out on the horizon. Rasmussen only realized that his son had been on one of the ships when the boy’s body washed up at his feet, delivered by a huge breaker. He began laughing a horrible ironic laugh that did not stop even after he died, a laugh that superstitious sailors say is really what you hear when you think sea birds are calling in the distance.

词汇	rasmussen-s laugh
词源	Rasmussen’s laugh. In Icelandic legend the story is told of a clergyman named Paul Rasmussen, whose son was kidnapped by English raiders. Acting impulsively, Rasmussen picked up three shells from the beach, each representing an English ship, and made black magic with them. When the shells sank in the water, so did the real ships out on the horizon. Rasmussen only realized that his son had been on one of the ships when the boy’s body washed up at his feet, delivered by a huge breaker. He began laughing a horrible ironic laugh that did not stop even after he died, a laugh that superstitious sailors say is really what you hear when you think sea birds are calling in the distance.
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