From: Erik Sieurin (BV9521@utb.hb.se)
Date: Mon 07 Apr 1997 - 13:32:52 EEST
> I don't know if it's been noted in the digest before, but Gloranthan
A serious note on this is of course: Could it be that there is an
> names have popped up on more than one occasion on the various Star
> Trek series.
It has been noted. It is less strange that someone which writes for a
SF-serial should be a RQ-fan than some women's lib movement being
named for an imaginary deity from a rpg which is rather small and
obscure in their homeland. Especially one which goes totally against
their presumed policies! If it had been "Kvinnoforeningen Vinga"...
actual historical or mythical female figure named Dendara in the RW?
Greg is a big reader of such stuff; the name might just have stuck
and he unconsciously chose it. Might be fun to know who the RW
Dendara are.
Jane Williams:
> Try doing a Web search for "Vinga", and you'll find out a lot about a
> lighthouse in - dare I say it? - Sweden.
> Lighthouse? Vinga? Wrong pantheon, surely?
The word for "spring" in Swedish is "var" - actually, there is a
ringh above the a, and it is pronounced as "vor" - yeah, like in
"Voria". My players thought I was joking when I first mentioned the
name.
"The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea, in a beautiful pea-green boat..."
>From "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear
Erik Sieurin
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