--- Robert Sallade <zardoz at weirdness.com> wrote: > New to the list, but definitely not new to the books... > > I don't know if this has been covered on this list (if it has please > give > me the mssg # because I couldn't find it.) > > Pure speculation follows: > > Is Ibronka name of one, two, or three people? Roanna's companion, Vlad's > > grandmother, and a third that Vlad dates. I suspect three. We've been talking and joking about time travel, which is what would be required for Vlad to date his own Grandmaw, but if that's what went on with that little throwaway I'd rather be surprised to find out. What's unrealistic in most sf books is that no two people have the same name (as I think I've said before on this list). I'm almost finished with Dorothy Dunnett's _King Hereafter_ (which I like), about the real Macbeth. Do you know how many Harolds and Haralds there are in that book? ... > Is Ibronka is a very popular name among Easterners and Dragaerans? > (Which > conflicts with the concept that there are different popular names, i.e. > Mario and one other that eludes me at the moment, Istvan, in _Athyra_. > which are > "Dragaeran(s) > with an Eastern name.") I doubt very much that Noish-pa would marry and > have children with a woman with a Dragaeran name. I think you're right. Google suggests that Ibronka is a real Hungarian name (in which case the accent is on the first syllable). > Is Ibronka another Dragaeran with an Eastern name? It doesn't seem > likely > that she would rise in the eyes of other Dragaerans with an Eastern > name. ... I suspect it doesn't matter. Contrary to Scott, though, it seems to be uncommon for Dragaerans to have Eastern names--at least enough so that when Vlad hears about Istvan, he surmises that Istvan is Eastern. By the way, if anyone is really bored, you can wonder why such names as Istvan and Tomas are the *only* trace of Christianity we've seen on Dragaera. Or are they not Christian? Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail