Marie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Any history behind the name Dag? I see it in the Vorkosiverse (Dag Benin) and of course the main character in the Sharing Knife/Wide Green World series, and I swear there was at least one other character with that name somewhere.
Lois McMaster Bujold
It's a real Danish (iirc) man's name, meaning "day". And it's short, making two marks in its favor. I first saw it in the news attached to Dag Hammer...(schold, skold, it's been a half century) who was Secretary-General of the UN back in the 50s or 60s, who seemed vaguely heroic to my young mind.
I'm also told, much more recently, that it's a slang Aussie term for the clumps of soil dangling from a sheep's hind end, so I likely won't use it again. Sadly.
Ta, L.
It's a real Danish (iirc) man's name, meaning "day". And it's short, making two marks in its favor. I first saw it in the news attached to Dag Hammer...(schold, skold, it's been a half century) who was Secretary-General of the UN back in the 50s or 60s, who seemed vaguely heroic to my young mind.
I'm also told, much more recently, that it's a slang Aussie term for the clumps of soil dangling from a sheep's hind end, so I likely won't use it again. Sadly.
Ta, L.
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