Gaertk at aol.com writes: > In a message dated Sun, 23 Jun 2002 4:47:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> writes: > > > Gaertk at aol.com writes: > >> [page ix] > >> > >> Neat way of expressing the dates, too bad they're wrong. > > > > I'm too lazy to work it out, but I'd be interested in > > seeing your calculations. > -most of the calculations snipped- Thanks! > [...] Now the date we're > dealing with is 309 PI, but Dragaerans start counting at 1 > instead of 0 [2], so subtract one to get 308. [...] Aside: We count ages starting at 0, but the Chinese start at 1 -- when a baby is born, they say its age is 1, not 0. > >> [page xiv] > >> > >> The lines quoted from the poem seem to contradict comments > >> made later by Sethra. > > > > How so? > > My interpretation of the poem is that its taking place after > Adron's Disaster and that Tazendra was a Lavode then, but > Sethra says (in _Issola_) that the Lavodes were disbanded > before the Interregnum. (Right: _Issola_, ch13, pp198-199) If I recall correctly, the events described in FHYA also don't quite match -"disbanded before the Interregnum"-, the context of which implied to me "years, if not many years, before". Another possibility is that in the poem Tazendra is referred to as a Lavode even before she officially becomes one. > It just occurred to me that Adron's > Disaster may not mark the "official" beginning of the > Interregnum. Interesting! - tky