In a message dated Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:15:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jose Marquez<jhereg69 at earthlink.net> writes: > Gaertk at aol.com wrote: >> >> * Ibronka, according to someone claiming to have heard >> Brust read an excerpt at a recent con > > My memory fails me. Who is Ibronka again? The name is so > familiar, but I can't remember from where... [click my way over to the Dramatis Personae page] Vlad's grandmother and also a former girlfriend. Though I don't expect either to appear in Viscount. There's also a classic Hungarian folktale "Fair Maid Ibronka". --KG