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Post by Gemini Jim on Aug 3, 2020 19:20:56 GMT
I have to say, it's very cute seeing Annie get excited about getting to show off her mythology knowlege I feel like they're sort of Ann-splaining. Girls, there's an actual Norse valkyrie in the room who can explain all this stuff. |
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Post by warrl on Aug 3, 2020 19:43:57 GMT
Actually, she was out of the room at the moment.
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Post by speedwell on Aug 3, 2020 20:21:07 GMT
Anjasdóttir, I would guess, if anything. And Anja's name translates extraordinarily easily to Old Norse, where Donald... I would have expected something more like Dómhnallsdóttir, but I'm an Irish resident and a nnneeeeerrrrdd.  (Interestingly, Scottish Gaelic has the accent on Dómhnall pointing the other way. But Donlan is a Connacht name so I went for the Irish.) Notice that Kat did not make that choice herself, though, and that the older way was typically mother-daughter and father-son (or so I was told by Scandinavian friends). Old gods like Brinnie and the Norns may have had a reason to default to "father's daughter" nomenclature. I would be shocked if Antimony wound up as anything but Surmasdóttir, unless it was Logisdóttir. (logi = flame, not to be confused with Loke, and shame on Wagner for getting this wrong.) |
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Post by wies on Aug 3, 2020 20:30:31 GMT
I love everyone's ideas about how the Norns would look like.
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Post by blahzor on Aug 3, 2020 22:15:41 GMT
Oooor it will be in KatVision. 3 women in a kitchen making blood pudding |
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Post by Gemini Jim on Aug 4, 2020 2:02:04 GMT
Actually, she was out of the room at the moment. Ah, right you are. Anja is still there, but Brinnie left in the last page with a Big Zam. Still, Annie's having a very Twilight Sparkle "must explain something" moment there. Not a bad thing, just funny. |
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Post by TBeholder on Aug 4, 2020 12:32:35 GMT
Anjasdóttir, I would guess, if anything. And Anja's name translates extraordinarily easily to Old Norse, where Donald... [...] Notice that Kat did not make that choice herself, though, and that the older way was typically mother-daughter and father-son (or so I was told by Scandinavian friends). Old gods like Brinnie and the Norns may have had a reason to default to "father's daughter" nomenclature. I would be shocked if Antimony wound up as anything but Surmasdóttir, I think Brinnie choose this variant because the recent shocking revelation is still on her mind. She just does her best to look cool and not show she is in any way affected. And "her best" happens to be much better than that of James. =) |
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Post by SilverbackRon on Aug 4, 2020 18:28:13 GMT
Two Annies and a Boxbot Coming to a theater near you! The reviews are TERRIBLE.
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Post by SilverbackRon on Aug 4, 2020 19:34:38 GMT
Shouldn't she be Anjadottir? I thought it goes mother-daughter, father-son. Well if you think of Bjork, her last name is Father-daughter. |
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Post by blahzor on Aug 4, 2020 22:08:44 GMT
Paging Katerina Donalddottir, the Norns will see you now ... or soon ... or already ... darn these time travel complications ... Will the Norns look different to Kat than they do to others? Will she have to pass some kind of test to talk to them, but to her the test is just picking up a pencil or something? What will they say to Kat? Will they tell her how to do time travel, but it'll all be ethereal, and she's going to have to find a way to make it technological? Will it be magical (i.e. something unexplainable by its very nature), and will Kat have to drift even farther from her pure-rational worldview? Or will they tell her something cryptic that she doesn't understand now, but once she does, it'll all click into place? Will they give her some sort of artifact to study that will tell her the secret once she figures out how it works? (Not a talking artifact -- I mean that the process of figuring out how it works will tell her the answer.) Will they give her some old book/scroll that will tell her the answer, but in archaic and cryptic terms? Or, given that it's Kat, will they give her something that looks different to her? "You're giving me this ... spiral-bound notebook." "No, child, that is the Ancient Scroll of Time, penned by the sages of old, etc. etc." In the end, I'll probably be wrong about every single one of these! it'll just be 3 women at a chalk board writing nonsensical numbers |
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(Interestingly, Scottish Gaelic has the accent on Dómhnall pointing the other way. But Donlan is a Connacht name so I went for the Irish.)
