From: Jonas Schiott (jonas.schiott@vinga.hum.gu.se)
Date: Mon 14 Nov 1994 - 22:04:21 EET
Disclaimer: all these comments refer to Saturday's Daily, since that's the
latest one I've received.
Nick:
>but at least the world-wide Cult of Orlanth (tm) is exactly
>the same!" (NOT!)
Aw, shucks, that's the one I was trying to sneak past you.... ;-)
>Urox = Aurochs, surely. Not Norse.
Huh? OK, so "Uroxe" is a modern Swedish word, not old Norse, but since a garbled transcription of it has been adopted as the English name for the animal in question, I assume it has respectable roots.
David (the rune owner):
>In East Ralios, I'm using the 4-generation definition of a bloodline
>(people who have the same great-grandfather up the male line)
Hmm, interesting. When we wrote up the Otter clan (for Growing Pains) we took the definition literally: the male line is traced to the founding of the clan, thus there are only three bloodlines. Of course, this is probably more of a social construct than genetic truth - the story about the three founding brothers has a touch of myth about it (there must have been more men around to father children).
( Jonas Schiott ) ( Institutionen for Ide- och lardomshistoria ) ( Goteborgs Universitet ) ---------------------
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