I thought of it as something like a pig as well. --- Mark A Mandel <mam at TheWorld.com> wrote: > Catching up on some old mail, although hit or > miss... > > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Joy Jennifer Nicholson wrote: > > #A discussion of food and drink could easily become > a discussion of the plants > #and animals of Dragaera, which I would enjoy. > # > #For example, what kind of animal is a kethna? I'd > always imagined it > #as some sort of bird, perhaps rather like a > chicken, but in LoCB a > #"suckling kethna" is served, suggesting that it is > more likely to be a > #mammal. What parallels can we draw between > Dragaeran fauna and our > #own? > > More specifically than that, I have always assumed > that it was a pig or > very much like one. I don't remember the citations > but we do have > "kethna bacon", and somewhere in Sethra Lavode there > is the mention of > an area that is renowned for, among other things, > the stench of its > kethna pens. > > -- Mark A. Mandel > http://cracksandshards.com > a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website > [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] > > > ===== ~*Yihan*~ IM: BLackDRagoness16 Visit my website: http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/dragonempress/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail