Re: Re: Girls & Boys

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:26:55 -0700


> Yeah. There's a deity associated with the Goose Girl but I can't for
> the life of me remember who the heck she is. But unlike the Animal
> Mothers, they merely tend the geese and chickens (?) rather than the
> more mythic (not the right word) relationship the Heortlings have
> with
> the pig, sheep, cow and so forth...

Isbarn the Goose girl. See AR, pg 175.

Note that the females named are generally (except for Isbarn) the "mother" of the animal in question, but the males aren't necessarily the "father". Uralda is the Cow-Mother, but Vingkot is not the father of bulls!

R

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