Hi Carilda, nice to meet you!
Thursday, June 29, 2000, 10:09:46 PM, you wrote:
>> Oh, and I hereby open a contest for a creative name for the server.
>> Non-offensive of course, and think 'theme', because we're going to have
>> mirrors sooner or later.
> I propose that the servers be named after women in Norse mythology. You
> know, men did all the fighting and got all the glory, while the women were
> just there to -- ahem -- serve the men.
After reading the following paragraphs I got a strong vote for yet
another very good (after "Bifrost") Carilda's proposal.
> The primary server, of course, would be Freya. Looking at my sources, I
> find that Freya was also in charge of magic, and what could be more magical
> than midgard?
> (also easier to spell than some of the things you guys have suggested)
> We also have for future mirrors:
> -- Fricka, goddess of weaving (although I believe my mother once told me
> that is very close to a wordy-dirty in several European languages...)
> -- Bestla (Odin's mother)
> -- Beyla (servant to Freya, prime choice for a mirror)
> -- Edda (my references don't refer to her as doing anything but breeding,
> which is not too bad....)
> -- Embla (the first woman, created by Odin)
> -- Esne (ancestress of all the peasants and laborers -- how about this for a
> code-snippet repository?)
Could I reserve this for Standard Midgard Library? :-)
> -- Gerda (a giantess with shiny arms, but it's easy to spell....)
> -- Groa (a magician who cured Thor's headache -- midgard can certainly cure
> site development headaches.)
> -- Gunlod (keeper of mead -- we DEFINITELY would want to use this one!)
> -- Nossa (name means jewel, and can be given to anything lovely)
> -- Idun (blonde goddess of eternal youth -- this one is for me!)
> -- Hertha (goddes of fertility, oh yeah!)
> -- Sif (another fertility goddess -- can't have too many of those...)
> I am sure you all have other favorites I have neglected.
> (There are lots of others, of course. I just picked out ones easy to spell
> and for which I found a nice story. I omitted Hel for obvious reasons,
> others because I couldn't find out anything they did.)
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