Partly because we could, and partly because it's a cool word. My best guess as to what it means in context (and yes, I'm a very bad fanboy; I read issue one only because it was convenient, and have not yet read any subsequent issues) is that it's being used as a peculiar synonym for Jotun (Mimir, the thrice-wise, was one). They were giants, Dawn got all big, that's how the math appears to me today to work. There's no clear indication, as far as my librarian and I can tell, that it means anything other than “really wise” in the original, but the Eddas are full of threes, so three wisdoms that we're overlooking wouldn't entirely surprise me.
Posted by Craig at May 10, 2007 02:29 PM