Ashart dies of heat

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_quicksilver.net.nz>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 00:11:35 +1200

Benedict Adamson:

>Events of My Life (KoS pg 211) has the unpromising entry '1621 --
>Whitewall falls. Ashart dies of heat.' What if 'heat' is a mis
>translation of an idiom such as 'temperature' in English, which can mean
>high or low temperature?

A better suggestion might be that in an effort to escape the cold winter outside, he stayed too close to the fire for far too long.

--Peter Metcalfe

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